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How to pass on to future generations the memory of radioactive waste storage sites, intended to keep them underground for millennia?
A headache for all projects of this type in the world.
In France, Cigeo, the site intended to receive the most radioactive waste mainly from EDF nuclear power plants, won its declaration of public utility on July 8.
It is a prerequisite before its construction to bury the waste there 500 meters deep, in a layer of geological clay straddling the Meuse and Haute-Marne.
For France, the Nuclear Safety Authority (ASN) recommends a period of five hundred years in order to protect the environment and populations.
“It will be a duration…
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