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6. Summary and outlook
6.1 Importance of geological structures
For any underground facility, the geological site is a major factor in the project, including the nature of the rock, the structure of the rock massifs and the hydrogeology. We have seen that there are storage facilities in both chalk and granite. As far as underground power plants are concerned, EDF studied a STEP at Venteuil-Tincourt, near Épernay, in the chalk. Although deemed acceptable in terms of rock mechanics, it was abandoned due to the hostility of Champagne winegrowers. In fractured rock massifs, we know that the orientation of elongated structures is a means of optimizing the response to instabilities: we prefer to place the elongation of the cavity at right angles to the direction of the most developed fractures, which is rarely...
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Bibliography
Websites
DUFFAUT Pierre 2005 – Engineering of large and deep rock caverns for physics research http://nnn05.in2p3.fr/schedule.html
HOEK Evert https://www.rocscience.com/learning/hoeks-corner
NAKAGAWA Tetsuo, 2005...
Events
SIM Annual Meeting, Société de l'Industrie Minérale, http://www.lasim.org
Annual Congress of ITA-AITES, International Tunnel and Underground Space Association, http://www.ita-aites.org
ACUUS Congress, Associated research centers for the urban underground space, http://www.acuus.qc.ca
Regulations
Mining Code, Ministry of the Economy, Finance and Industry, 50 p.
Directory
French Tunnel and Underground Space Association, http://www.aftes.asso.fr
CERN, European Organization for Nuclear Research, http://www.cern.ch
French Rock Mechanics Committee, http://.cfmr-roches.org
Géostock, formerly Société française de stockage géologique, now part of the Vinci Group, http://www.geostockgroup.com
ISRM, International...
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