{"id":8474,"date":"2022-04-01T10:48:50","date_gmt":"2022-04-01T10:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bure3iqeqde7ynpluyuubochndt33wwsbkmo7kgf32bmli4zigjwvzid.onion\/?page_id=8474"},"modified":"2026-02-11T22:08:40","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T22:08:40","slug":"qu-est-ce-qui-se-passe-a-bure","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bureburebure.info\/en\/qu-est-ce-qui-se-passe-a-bure\/","title":{"rendered":"What is happening in Bure?"},"content":{"rendered":"

What is happening in Bure ?<\/h1>\n

The project of building a huge nuclear dump called CIGEO is ongoing since 1994, due to a french law from 1991 about the management of nuclear waste. A second law in 2006 decided to focus on Bure, in the department of the Meusen which has a clay based underground. This law was passed under the disguise of building \u201claboratory\u201d for geological research. A third law in 2016 starts the beginning of CIGEO, under a so-called \u201cpilot phase\u201d which has nothing to do with research. This is the first industrial phase of the project (costing approximately 25% of the estimated total!).<\/p>\n

The public declaration of interests (DUP) was filed in 2020. Its goal is to approve the interest of the project, especially to justify expropriations of necessary lands and new preparatory works. In the years to come, ANDRA (national agency for managing nuclear waste), the engineer of CIGEO, is supposed to ask for the authorization to create CIGEO and then, if approved, construction should start. However, some preparation works have been happening since 2015, and face ongoing protests.<\/p>\n

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Cig\u00e9o : plan of the nuclear trash<\/p><\/div>\n

Cig\u00e9o would be spread over five villages in Meuse and Haute-Marne departments : Bure, Saudron, Ribeaucourt, Bonnet and Mandres. It would be 270 ha if surface nuclear installations and 300 km of underground tunnels, which would provide storage for the most radioactive products of the nuclear industry. All that for at least 40 billion euros.<\/p>\n

A future no man\u2019s land? Who would want to live next to that?<\/p>\n

For the moment it is just a project. At this point in time there is no nuclear waste in Bure, and the first arrivals are not due before 2025.<\/p>\n

However, ANDRA continues to buy land (already 3000 ha in the Meuse and Haute-Marne departments), and to build infrastructure (railway, roads, electricity lines, etc) and their propaganda keeps spreading\u2026<\/p>\n

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In order to make CIGEO and opposition to the project understandable by as many people as possinle, popularization sheets were created in French. You can download them below :<\/p>\n

Sheet n\u00b03 \u2013 Railway facilities<\/a> (french) (january 2020)<\/p>\n

Sheet n\u00b04 \u2013 Cig\u00e9o’s schedule<\/a> (french) (january 2020)<\/p>\n

Sheet n\u00b05 \u2013 Cig\u00e9o underground waste storage facility<\/a> (french) (january 2020)<\/p>\n

Sheet n\u00b06 \u2013 Cig\u00e9o electrical connection<\/a> (french) (june 2020)<\/p>\n

Sheet n\u00b08 \u2013 Cig\u00e9o heating needs<\/a> (french) (january 2020)<\/p>\n

The house of resistance<\/h2>\n
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In 2004, some people against the nuclear state from France and Germany created an association called BZL (Bure Zone Libre \/ Bure Free Area). The year after, they bought an old farmhouse to renovate in the Meuse region in the heart of the small village of Bure, in the form of a non-trading property company (SCI) with the Sortir Du Nucl\u00e9aire network. This ruined farm will become the “House of resistance to nuclear waste” (“Maison de r\u00e9sistance \u00e0 la poubelle nucl\u00e9aire”).<\/p>\n

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At this point in time, this house is a living place open to everybody throughout the year. It has a meeting\/concert space, insulated space for many people to sleep, a kitchen, a workshop, a computer room and a garden. It is a place to :<\/p>\n