Embankment for a nuclear site

1 November 2016 - Projects update and handover - France

At Marcoule (south of France), on behalf of the CEA (French Atomic Energy Commission), Eurovia Méditerranée’s Nîmes office is completing, after two years of works, the external works for a building for the storage of nuclear waste.

This project went through a number of delicate phases, notably the creation of a 7 m-high embankment in the vicinity of the building under construction, the compacting of this embankment using a pneumatic tyred roller and, finally, the protection of a leak-proof collection basin where the drainage system with its geotextiles and drainage materials had to be installed by hand.