Storage of nuclear waste in Bure: why the landfill project bill could explode

According to a new estimate by Andra, the total cost of this non-standard project could finally be EUR 37.5 billion.

Estimated at €25 billion in 2016, the Cigeo project's bill could eventually be between €26 billion and €37 billion. This new estimate must now be arbitrated by the government before the end of 2025. The Cigeo project, which consists of storing the most dangerous nuclear waste at a depth of 500 m, continues to materialize, slowly but surely. While the Nuclear Safety and Radiation Protection Agency (NSRA) has found the safety of the future deep nu…

The Cigeo project for the burial of the most radioactive nuclear waste in Bure, Meuse, could cost a total of 26.1 to 37.5 billion instead of the 25 billion envisaged so far, according to the new evaluation of the National Agency for the Management of Radioactive Waste (Andra), which must now be arbitrated by the government.

The Cigéo nuclear waste disposal facility in Bure will cost between €26.1 billion and €37.5 billion, Andra announced. A cost that could still be underestimated. This is a major cost that is fresh in the minds of the nuclear industry. The deep burial of France's most dangerous radioactive waste, as part of the Cigéo project in Bure (Meuse), could cost a total of between €26.1 billion and €37.5 billion. The French National Agency for Waste Managem…

The planned landfill of radioactive waste in Bure, Meuse, could cost between 26 and 37 billion euros, said the National Agency for the Management of Nuclear Waste (Andra) on Monday, 12 May. But these estimates remain very relative on a project expected to spread until about 2170.

The cost of nuclear power: when waste becomes a sinker The latest evaluation submitted by Andra is unambiguous. The cost of the Cigeo project is now between 26.1 and 37.5 billion euros, expressed in constant euros of 2012. But an update to the economy of the end of 2023 immediately increases the range to between 33 and 45 billion euros. As a reminder, the State was still setting a ceiling of 25 billion euros in 2016. The gap is no longer margina…