Building galleries 500 meters underground, store the most dangerous waste from it by the French nuclear fleet and operating the installation until it closed, after one hundred and fifty years, could cost between 26.1 billion and 37.5 billion euros. Monday, May 12, the National Agency for Radioactive Waste Management (Andra) must hand over to the ministry Responsible for industry and energy The updated assessment of the total cost of the Cigeo project, an industrial center for geological storage, for the period 2016 (date when the cost of the project was stopped) -2170. This encryption does not take into account the cost associated with waste that would be produced by six, or even fourteen new European pressurized reactors (EPR), whose construction was announced by the executive.
In the Cigeo landlord center, located in Horse on the departments of Meuse and Haute-Marne, must be stored, in a layer of thick clay of 150 meters, the so-called nuclear waste “High activity and medium long activity for long life”, some of which will remain radioactive up to hundreds of thousands of years.
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