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CIGEO
Preparing for construction
Marie-Claude DUPUIS & Gérald Ouzounian
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Presentation and organisation of the CIGEO project
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Ramp zone
Shaft zone
Surface-to-bottom link
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Surface installations
ramp zone
EDF archives
"Ecothèque"
Underground laboratory
Technological Exhibition
Facility
Rail terminal
Physical security-controlled
area
Service buildings
(offices, car parks, refectory…)
Industrial buildings (secure
area, maintenance, utilities)
Security zone (monitoring,
security, fire crews)
“Memory-keeping” building
Public information centre Campus
Service ramp entrance
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Surface installations
shaft zone (scenario 2)
Physical security-controlled
area
Service buildings
(offices, car parks, refectory…)
Industrial buildings (secure
area, shaft, works zone,
maintenance, utilities) Security zone (monitoring,
security, fire crews)
Construction site zone
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Presentation and organisation of the CIGEO project
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Overall progress of the CIGEO project
An atypical nuclear installation, built and operated underground over a period of more than a
hundred years.
Development of the structures in stages, to be operated successively, with a flexible approach.
DESIGN CONSTRUCTION
CIGEO “at completion”
CIGEO PHASE 1
CIGEO PHASE 2
SCOPE OF THE MANAGEMENT PLAN DESIGN PHASE
COMPREHENSIVE DESIGN
OPERATION
DESIGN CONSTRUCTION
OPERATION
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3 concrete mixing
plants
• "SS2" nuclear zone
site,
• "SS3" conventional
zone site,
• Rail terminal site.
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Deployment of sites
Tunneling site zone
Tunneling machine
Liner-segment transport Liner segments
Surface site
Ramp zone
Shaft zone
Underground site
Concrete plants
Ameneties
Parking
Storage
Fabrication
Guard
post
Visual scale: 2-km-
diameter circle
Guard
post
EXTERNAL
SITE ZONE
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2 concrete mixing
plants
• "SS3" conventional
zone site,
• "SS4" excavation
zone site.
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Deployment of sites
Muck piles
Surface site
Ramp zone
Shaft zone
Underground site
Shaft excavation
Shaft heads
Concrete plant
Ameneties
Parking
Storage
Operating sector personnel
shaft
Operating sector ventilation
shaft
Construction sector personnel
shaft
Construction sector equipment
shaft
Construction sector ventilation
shaft
2
1
3
4
5
1
2
3
4
5
Guard
post
Visual scale: 1-
km-diameter
circle
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Developments around the sites (outside Andra project ownership)
Water
Electricity
Natural gas
Roads
Rail network
Requirements
in late 2018
Fuseau des rejets
Scenarios and zones for water supply and discharge
Water requirements
2019 to 2025 500 m3/day
from 2026 100 m3/day
Drinking water abstraction
with authorised daily
extraction in m3
"SDAGE" abstractions
"Grenelle" abstractions
Water supply zone to
be studied
Discharge zone
kilometres
CIGEO Geological
Disposal Facility
Car n9_water supply,wor 31/10/2012
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New 400/90 kV substation (grid operator) or
2 new 90 kV delivery stations (1 in ramp zone, 1 in shaft zone)
2 new 90 kV buried lines providing loop redundancy between the delivery stations
Developments around the sites (outside Andra project ownership)
Water
Electricity
Natural gas
Roads
Rail network
Requirements
in late 2018
Note: The locations shown on this
map have been given by the grid
operator to give an idea prior to the
detailed study. The definitive
locations will be specified after the
public debate.
EDF
Archives
"Ecothèque"
Underground
laboratory
Technological
Exhibition
Facility
Scale:
Delivery station connection study – Path studied by the grid operator for detailed study Lambert 93
projection
KEY
Existing installations
Underground
laboratory
Technological
Exhibition
Facility
EDF archives
centre
"Ecothèque"
HVB power line (grid operator) (50m exclusion zone either side of the HV line)
Possible locations for CIGEO
delivery stations
Possible location for grid
operator substation
Preferred
location Variant
Possible connection
(grid operator) (Zone approximately 150m
from each side)
Shafts
Ramp
entrances
Possible locations for nearby surface
installations:
for
shafts
for ramp
entrances
Proposed locations:
Zone specified for underground
installations
Département
boundary
Scenario
3
Scenario
2
Scenario
1
Scenarios
1, 2 and 3
Scenarios
1,2 and 3 Scenario
No.
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Developments around the sites (outside Andra project ownership)
Water
Electricity
Natural gas
Roads
Rail network
Alternative resource being studied for heating, drying, steam and hot water production, etc.
No distribution network in the Bure-Saudron area
Solution involves connecting to networks approximately 20 km from CIGEO
Network construction Delivery station
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Developments around the sites (outside Andra project ownership)
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Rerouting of the
RD 960
Road section
retained within the
Ramp zone
Link to the shaft
zone
Water
Electricity
Natural gas
Roads
Rail network
Requirements
in 2017
Graphical scale:
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Hypothetical rail
terminal connected to
the rail network
Developments around the sites (outside Andra project ownership)
Gondrecourt-le-
Château
Nançois-
sur-Ornain
Restructuring the
existing line between
Nançois-sur-Ornain
and
Gondrecourt-le-
Château
Water
Electricity
Natural gas
Roads
Rail network
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Creation of a new line from Gondrecourt-le-Château to enable transport and reception
of:
waste packages from production sites,
heavy goods and equipment required for CIGEO construction from supplier sites.
Gondrecourt-
le-Château
Preliminary site developments (under Andra project ownership)
Rail link
Ramp zone
Rail terminal
Fencing and
earthworks
Site
installations
Tunneling-
machine
assembly
rooms
Shaft zone
Fencing and
earthworks
Site
installations
Hypothetical rail
terminal
connected to rail
network
Rail
terminal
Start of work dependent on
adminstrative turnaround times and
procedures
Preliminary
developments Rail link and terminal
General earthworks, fencing, 90/20kV substations,…
Distance along the line between the two circles: 14 km
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Liner segments and transport
Road header tunneling machine
6 m diameter
(Andra / Eiffage TP / Antea-BG / Herrenknecht)
Tunneling machine for underground laboratory
Presentation of Civil Engineering Works
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Ramp excavation equipment
Conventional
buildings
Nuclear building
Surface-to-
bottom link
Underground
Order of magnitude
8 liner segments per 1.5 m excavation
≈ 750 liner segments per week
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First TBM excavated gallery: view on September 11th
2013
The TBM (Tunnel Boring Machine) is presently being tested. Excavation started in June
2013 and first 80m gallery successfully built
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Micro tunneling machine
and its head
Presentation of Civil Engineering Works
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Conventional
buildings
Nuclear building
Surface-to-
bottom link
Underground
Drift excavation equipment
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Presentation of mechanical equipment
Funicular
railway
Some relevant
figures…
Length: 4.2 km
Drop: over 500 m
Slope: 12 %
Rated load: 130 t
Total loaded weight: 175 t
Power required at the pulley:
750 kW
Nuclear
building
ILW-LL casks
HLW casks
Surface-to-
bottom link
Underground
Transfer
ILW-LL
HLW
CIM0AVI120
248B-249B
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Transfer
HLW ILW-LL
CIM0AVI120
257B-258B
Return strand of
cable
Vehicle strand
(49 mm diameter)
Centred on the track
FRESH AIR
(from
ventilation
shaft)
FRESH AIR
(from
ventilation
shaft)
FRESH AIR
(from
ventilation
shaft)
Liner segment ext. dia. 11.6m
Int. dia. 8.60m
Surface-to-bottom
link
Ramp zone
Excavation and linings Tunneling machine
prep. Mech. equipment.