Gastre
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Gastre is a village in Chubut Province
, Argentina
. It is the head town of the Gastre Department
. It was founded in 1904. The place was the center of a controversy in the 1990s when the National Atomic Energy Commission
proposed to build a deep borehole disposal
in the area.
Chubut Province
Chubut a province in the southern part of Argentina situated between the 42nd parallel south and the 46th parallel south , the Andes range separating Argentina from Chile, and the Atlantic ocean...
, Argentina
Argentina
Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...
. It is the head town of the Gastre Department
Gastre Department
Gastre Department is a department of Chubut Province in Argentina.The provincial subdivision has a population of about 1,508 inhabitants in an area of 16,335 km², and its capital city is Gastre, which is located around 1,713 km from Capital Federal....
. It was founded in 1904. The place was the center of a controversy in the 1990s when the National Atomic Energy Commission
National Atomic Energy Commission
The National Atomic Energy Commission is the Argentine government agency in charge of nuclear energy research and development.The agency was created on May 31, 1950 with the mission of developing and controlling nuclear energy for peaceful purposes in the country.CNEA's facilities include the...
proposed to build a deep borehole disposal
Deep borehole disposal
Deep borehole disposal is the concept of disposing of high-level radioactive waste from nuclear reactors in extremely deep boreholes. Deep borehole disposal seeks to place the waste as much as five kilometers beneath the surface of the Earth and relies primarily on the thickness of the natural...
in the area.