Bure (rock laboratory)

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Village d'entreprises (research station) in Saudron (Haute-Marne) ( BureLabo18 )

Near the French town Bure in the Meuse department in France by the French nuclear authority ANDRA ( A gence N ational pour la Gestion des D Échets Ra dioactifs ) at a depth of about 500 meters an underground laboratory operated for the study of local geological conditions.

In July 2016, the French parliament approved the construction of a repository in the current “laboratory”. The participation of German bodies in the approval process starting in 2017 is considered common and has already been confirmed by the French. Storage could begin in 2030.

The repository for radioactive waste planned in the neighboring department of Haute-Marne, called Cigéo ( Center industriel de stockage géologique pour les déchets HA et MA-VL, German reversible geological repository for radioactive waste in the departments of Meuse and Haute-Marne ) is around an underground tunnel system with an area of ​​30 square kilometers .

purpose

Entrance gate to the ANDRA underground research laboratory in Bure

The background to this measure is the French national search for a storage facility for high-level (HAW) and long-lived medium- level radioactive waste (MAW). To date, there is no such nuclear repository in France or in the rest of Europe ; the nuclear waste is to be stored here for up to 100,000 years.

If it is suitable, the research laboratory is to be expanded into a repository. According to the current (2010?) Status it could be designed for approx. 130,000 m³ of medium and 8,000 m³ of high-level radioactive waste. The French government stressed that the disposal of radioactive waste should be retrievable for a period that has not yet been determined (300 years are suggested) .

development

The first drilling was carried out in 1994.

On December 9, 1998, the French government at the time ( Jospin Cabinet ) decided to build two underground laboratories in order to create scientific prerequisites for the operation of a nuclear repository through research activities. Bure was selected as one of the locations in this context, as the local, approx. 130 meter thick clay and marl formation from relatively fine-grained sedimentary rock appeared to be suitable; In this context, the suitability of clay stones for the final disposal of highly radioactive waste should also be examined in general.

In September 2000, construction of the two access shafts for the laboratory in Bure began. The construction work was interrupted for almost a year after a fatal accident in May 2002.

By the end of 2011 a model “mini repository” had been created. In 2013, a national, public debate about the construction of the nuclear repository began, which should drag on until 2016. The planned construction date was 2017.

The emplacement of highly radioactive waste could (as of 2010) begin in 2025; According to initial findings, storage for a million years is believed to be possible here; ANDRA proposes the installation of a nuclear waste repository; the costs should (2011) amount to up to 35 billion euros; around 1.5 billion euros have been invested so far; an application is to be submitted in 2015.

With 330 employees and the participation of more than 2,000 international scientists to date, ANDRA officially pursues a so-called strategy of openness ; In 2011 the test facility had around 2,000 visitors.

Initially, the French government paid € 9 million a year to the two departments concerned; In 2012 it was 30 million euros. The French electricity company Électricité de France (EdF) moved its archive to a new building in Bure. The nearby town of Bonnet receives € 500 a year for each of its 200 residents from a "financial support fund".

At the beginning of August 2015, the French Constitutional Court declared an article relating to Bure , which the government ( Valls II cabinet ) had inserted into a law on economic development at short notice without consulting the National Assembly, as non-constitutional and therefore null and void. Economics Minister Emmanuel Macron immediately announced a new draft law in the first half of 2016; in it one wants to set the pilot phase for a nuclear waste disposal in Bure. The Saarland Landtag voted unanimously against the project.

On July 11, 2016, the National Assembly approved the construction of a repository near Bure. The Senate had given its approval beforehand.

The FAZ and a Luxembourg radio station report that 3% of the highly radioactive waste from France has to be stored. The German repository commission initially assumes 5% of the (vitrified) highly radioactive waste, which should then be observed for 50 years before further storage takes place. Saarland radio, Deutschlandfunk and Handelsblatt spoke of 10,000 m 3 of high-level radioactive waste and 70,000 m 3 of medium-level radioactive waste.

The FAZ reported on earth containing clay and quartz and the Luxemburger Tageblatt von Clay and Marlstone. The Federal Environment Portal and the Saarbrücker Zeitung cited a study that Bure would have discussed the suitability as a repository site. This study also speaks of a tone formation in accordance with the final report of the German repository commission.

The approval process is scheduled to start in 2017. Storage could begin in 2030.

Others

From 2025 (as of 2014), the "repository" should start operating on a test basis, initially with the storage of containers, then with the storage of radioactive waste.

MEP (Député français) Christophe Bouillon, rapporteur for the PS in the National Assembly since July 18, 2012 , said in 2016 that the first waste would not be stored there until 2030.

A large part of the French nuclear waste is today in the La Hague site stored . Opponents of the final disposal claim that transporting the nuclear waste from La Hague to Bure would require two trains (over 10,000 trains) a week from La Hague to Bure for a century. With costs of 41 billion euros, the project is also not economically justifiable.

On July 4, 2018, a house search was carried out in the Langer August cultural center in Dortmund by order of the central and contact point Cybercrime North Rhine-Westphalia . Servers were to be found through which activists against the planned Bure repository are said to have distributed "secret documents". These were previously stolen from the French engineering service provider Ingérop due to a security hole .

See also

Web links

Operator

  • Surveillance du laboratoire basement . In: andra.fr (December 31, 2011) with a link to PDF download (825 kB) Télécharger la plaquette sur l'état initial de l'environnement du Laboratoire de recherche souterrain de Meuse / Haute-Marne . In: andra.fr (December 31, 2011; PDF; 1 MB)

resistance

Footnotes

  1. ↑ a b c d APA / AFP , November 22, 2011: The French are working flat out on nuclear waste repositories In : wirtschaftsblatt.at, International ( Memento from December 28, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (December 3, 2011)
  2. ↑ Participation in the Bure approval process ( memento from August 16, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), by Lisa Huth and Axel Burmeister, Saarländischer Rundfunk, March 9, 2016
  3. ↑ a b c Ulrike Koltermann: Nuclear energy: France digs at the nuclear waste repository . In: Wirtschaftswoche , wiwo.de, June 5, 2012 (p. 3, June 7, 2012)
  4. ↑ Deutschlandfunk - “ Background ” , May 28, 2013, Suzanne Krause: dradio.de: Where to put the nuclear waste? - The repository debate in France (May 30, 2013)
  5. ↑ andra.fr: Cigéo (May 30, 2013)
  6. ↑ cigeo.org: Brief description of the industrial center for deep geological repositories (May 30, 2013)
  7. ↑ badische-zeitung.de, Nachrichten, Ausland , July 28, 2011, Axel Veiel: The lonely struggle of young French people against nuclear power (July 31, 2011)
  8. ↑ 3sat : The first nuclear waste repository could be built in Bure . In: 3sat.de, nano (December 31, 2011)
  9. ↑ Susanne Götze , November 16, 2011: Bure - Europe's first nuclear repository? In: heise.de (November 24, 2011)
  10. ↑ a b c d e Helmut Wyrwich: Lorraine should receive nuclear repositories . In: tageblatt.lu, Luxemburger Tagblatt, December 8, 2011 (January 8, 2012).
  11. ↑ David Talbot: It will cost billions . In: heise.de, Technology Review , July 9, 2009 (December 31, 2011)
  12. ↑ DBE GmbH: Worldwide activities . In: dbe.de ( Memento from August 17, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (December 31, 2011: Homepage HP: dbe.de ( Memento from August 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive )).
  13. ↑ Peter Desoi: BURE: Time is of the essence . In: castor.de, Gorleben Rundschau 2004 , issue no.01 , January
  14. ↑ 3sat : Looking again: Three EU countries are working on new repositories . In: 3sat.de, nano , September 16, 2010 (July 25, 2011, December 31, 2011).
  15. ↑ Ulrike Koltermann: Nuclear energy: France digs at the nuclear waste repository . In: Wirtschaftswoche June 8, 2012: wiwo.de, June 7, 2012 (p. 2).
  16. ↑ 55130 Bonnet, see also French or English Wikipedia .
  17. ↑ Handelsblatt.com , August 6, 2015: Constitutional Court removes nuclear waste passage from law
  18. ↑ Deutschlandfunk.de , August 6, 2015: Paris announces new law for Bure nuclear waste storage facility  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.deutschlandfunk.de  
  19. ↑ Zeit.de , August 6, 2015: Paris announces new law for the pilot phase for Bure nuclear waste storage facility .
  20. ↑ a b c d FAZ.net / Christian Schubert July 12, 2016: The French decide to build a nuclear repository near Saarbrücken .
  21. ↑ see also LOI n ° 2016-1015 du 25 July 2016 précisant les modalités de création d'une installation de stockage réversible en couche géologique profonde des déchets radioactifs de haute et moyenne activité à vie longue
  22. ↑ Plans for the Bure repository are more concrete , L´essentiell, July 13, 2016
  23. ↑ a b Responsibility for the future, a fair and transparent procedure for the selection of a national repository site , final report of the Commission for the Storage of Highly Radioactive Waste, preliminary draft, July 4, 2016, p. 204 ff.
  24. ↑ What to do with the nuclear waste? , Handelsblatt, July 7, 2016
  25. ↑ Final storage for nuclear waste in Bure is coming ( memento from August 16, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), by Rebecca Kaiser, Saarländischer Rundfunk, July 12, 2016
  26. ↑ Clear goal - France is looking for its repository , Deutschlandfunk, July 11, 2016
  27. ^ French nuclear waste repository is being built near the border , July 15, 2016
  28. ↑ France paves the way for repository in Bure: the state government must insist on participation in the approval process , Federal Environment Portal , July 14, 2016
  29. ↑ The nuclear waste repository in Bure is approaching , by Hélène Maillasson, Saarbrücker Zeitung, July 14, 2016
  30. ↑ France's nuclear repository near the German border , IWR, July 15, 2016
  31. ^ Sharp criticism of France's nuclear repository , by Daniel Wetzel, Die Welt, July 14, 2016
  32. ↑ Suzanne Krause: deutschlandfunk.de: In operation from 2025 subject to change . Deutschlandfunk , May 7, 2014.
  33. ↑ assemblee-nationale.fr: Commission du développement durable et de l'aménagement du territoire (minutes of the meeting)
  34. ↑ about 550 kilometers of road
  35. ^ Christof Voigt: Cybercrime raid in Dortmund's north city. WDR , July 5, 2018, accessed July 5, 2018 .
  36. ↑ Sebastian Weiermann: Cybercrime in the center left? On Wednesday evening heavily armed police searched the left-wing center "Langer August" in Dortmund. Neues Deutschland , July 5, 2018, accessed on July 5, 2018 .
  37. ↑ Martin Holland: Large-scale police operation because of server: Criticism of the house search in Dortmund. Heise online , July 5, 2018, accessed on July 5, 2018 .
  38. ^ Sebastian Weiermann: Raid in Dortmund: The target was French opponents of nuclear power. Activists had drawn attention to companies that are involved in the construction of the French Cigéo nuclear waste disposal facility in Bure. Neues Deutschland, July 6, 2018, accessed on July 6, 2018 .
  39. ↑ Petra L .: Open house (s) day - heavily armed burglars occupy Lange August and steal servers from the WiLa (sic!). Wissenschaftsladen Dortmund, July 6, 2018, accessed on July 7, 2018 (also contains photos of the seizure decision and protocol).
  40. ↑ Quelques documents internes d'INGEROP. Attaque - Chronique de la guerre sociale en France, archived from the original on July 6, 2018 ; Retrieved on July 6, 2018 (French, contains most of the documents on which the house was searched).

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