One dead in tunnel collapse at future French nuclear waste site

  27 January 2016    Read: 1387
One dead in tunnel collapse at future French nuclear waste site
One person died and another was injured in a tunnel collapse at France`s future nuclear waste storage site in the northeast of the country, local authorities said on Tuesday.
The Strasbourg prefecture said in a statement that the front of a tunnel being drilled about 500 meters (yards) deep at the site in Bure had collapsed while measurements were being taken.

Nuclear waste agency Andra`s Cigeo deep geological storage project is designed to bury France`s highly radioactive nuclear waste hundreds of meters underground for thousands of years.

The government`s final investment decision on the 25 billion euro ($27.08 billion) project is not expected before 2020, but Andra has already dug deep shafts to test the soil and its future installations.

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