Some 200 km from Belgium, near Bure, more than a thousand activists organize a festival against the storage of nuclear waste
Soberly named Industrial Geological Storage Center (Cigéo), the project aims to bury some 85,000 m3 of waste – the most radioactive of the French nuclear fleet – 500 meters underground on the borders of the Meuse and Haute-Marne.
The National Agency for Radioactive Waste Management (Andra), which is piloting this project, hopes to store the first ones there.packageof nuclear waste by 2035-2040.
And the DUP is paving the way for Andra to expropriate the private land needed to carry out this project.
Some 1,500 people, according to the organizers, were thus grouped together on Saturday under six circus tents for the third edition of these “Bure’lesques“, after a two-year hiatus due to the Covid pandemic.
let go nothing
On a hilly field lent by farmers, the atmosphere is festive and exchanges between activists of all ages, from the four parts of the country. On the program: concerts, conferences and documentary screenings but also the canteen, vegan, which serves organic and local products.
“Cigéo project, where are we?“, “Water and Nuclear Waste Landfill Project“… Long-time activists, inhabitants of surrounding villages and scientific experts follow one another at the microphone to debate the tenants and outcomes of Cigéo.
The objective: to inform the population about the “shortcomings” of the project, according to Régine Millarakis.
Around the tables in the open-air refectory, a choir begins a capella militant songs, while other participants continue their debates.