- Fort Foureau (Sahara)
Fort Foureau is a fictitious former
French Foreign Legion garrison featured in thenovel "Sahara" byClive Cussler and the movie of the same name.Present use
Fort Foureau is the
hazardous waste disposal project located in the African country ofMali and run byYves Massarde . Fort Foureau handles biological and chemical waste and burns it using twoquartz burner s. The project is powered bysolar -photon technology.The project has a number of solar panels which collect sunlight and store it in power modules ready to be used in the chemical
incinerator s.Solar concentration
The destruction of the chemical and
biological waste is done by solar concentrators. The first reactor focuses the high-intensity sunlight onto the waste and is broken down into harmless chemicals. at a temperature of 950 degreescelcius . The second reactor incinerates the remaining material at a temperature of 1200 degrees.Secret
Fort Foureau is only designed to burn chemical and biological waste. However, Yves Massarde has an illegal underground storage vault built to put nuclear waste in. The waste is stored in inferior canisters and begins to leak out. Any person who discovers the vault is sent to the
Tebezza gold mine .
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