A Short Trip with Multiple Destinations:
Destination 3: Underground Research Center at Tournemire
Part One: Getting There
IRSN (L'institut de radioprotection et de sûreté nucléaire) was pleased to be able to take our group of nuclear waste workers from around the world, quite literally, to their underground research site near Tournemire.
The clay is about the same age and has much in common with the clay at the Bure site that is run by Andra, the French nuclear waste disposal agency. I visited the Bure site in 2008.
This page will be divided into a "getting to" part and a "going underground" part, linked below.
Getting there
Millau and its bridge are the topics of their own page, but here we just want to see the countryside west of Millau (all pictures taken from bus, so window glare was unavoidable), and all the villages we passed go unnamed here, except Roquefort.
Here we are leaving the Gorges du Tarn area:
Roquefort is hard to mistake for any other village, both by its location and obvious landmarks:
Tournemire is not far from Roquefort, this is a nice scene behind the town:
We crawled through Tournemire, making a funky U-turn because of the narrowness of the roads and sharpness of one curve, then, just a few kilometers later, we arrived at the IRSN site!
GO TO Part Two: Going Underground
OTHER DESTINATIONS FOR THIS MARCH 2009 TRIP
Destination 4: The Gorges of the Tarn (Introduction)
(with 10 Sub-destination Pages)
Go Back to Destination 1: La Grande Motte
Go Back to Destination 2: Millau and Its Bridge
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