Gastre (from Tehuelche ''Gástrrek'', meaning "shrub") is a village in

Chubut Province Chubut ( from Tehuelche language, Tehuelche 'transparent'; ) is a provinces of Argentina, province in southern Argentina, situated between the 42nd parallel south (the border with Río Negro Province), the 46th parallel south (bordering Santa ...

, Argentina. It is the head town of the

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 the ...

. It was founded in 1904. The place was the center of a controversy in the early 1990s when Argentina's

National Atomic Energy Commission The National Atomic Energy Commission (, CNEA) is the Argentine government agency in charge of nuclear energy research and development. The agency was created on 31 May 1950, with the mission of developing and controlling nuclear energy for pea ...

proposed to build a

deep borehole disposal Deep borehole disposal (DBD) is the concept of disposing high-level radioactive waste from nuclear reactors in extremely deep boreholes instead of in more traditional deep geological repositories that are excavated like mines. Deep borehole dispos ...

in the area. It was intended for radioactive waste to stay in the area for "1,000 years" until the radiation reached a non-lethal level.

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* Populated places in Chubut Province Populated places established in 1904 {{Chubut-geo-stub