The Evaluation Commission (CNE) presented its new report to Clis de Bure. The opponents… tore him in two.
It was July 13 in Joinville. The CNE, like every year, had to present an 18e report on the monitoring of the Cigéo project. Difficult to highlight one subject rather than another, after a presentation which started from the relaunch of nuclear power to a general picture of the countries which have opted for underground storage of nuclear waste. Interesting but Cigéo in all this? However, the CNE plans to publish its report on the Dac file (request for authorization to create Cigéo) at the end of 2025. The subjects identified are geology, hydrogeology, materials science, radionuclide chemistry, interface chemistry , environmental and climate sciences. This commission of scientific experts will also examine recoverability, inventories, reversibility, and the pilot industrial phase (Phipil). We therefore sometimes stuck to generalities. What the opponents of the project present during this presentation did not fail to vividly recall.
No miracles
“20 years ago, we tore up your report, 20 years later, nothing has changed!” Jean-Marc Fleury, president of Elected Officials Opposed to the Burial of Nuclear Waste (Eodra), walking his talk, once again symbolically tore up the CNE report. Palpable tension in the room and embarrassed response from the president of the CNE, Vincent Lagneau, believing that his role was not to make “policy recommendations” and that we should not expect “miracle revelations today”. However, were we left unsatisfied during this presentation? The CNE addressed the issue of bituminous waste and its classification. “We will certainly succeed in classifying this waste as it is”she says. Another point to note, today we are talking about a Cigéo closure demonstrator and sealing test. Because let's remember, the principle of Cigéo remains to confine nuclear waste 500 m underground after a period of around a hundred years. “Where is the human in all this?”asked an opponent. A question that hovers in the middle of very technical considerations.
-Nuclear money During his greetings to the press, the President of the Department, Nicolas Lacroix, mentioned the economic support for Cigéo which is the subject of tough negotiations. “We need taxation that meets the challenges,” he declared. And to hope for an envelope of 120 million euros for the two departments (Meuse and Haute-Marne).
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