2020-Jul-23
NWMO Proposes a Nuclear Waste Repository on Lake Huron
Despite the Saugeen Ojibway Nation’s overwhelming rejection of a previous plan for a low and intermediate nuclear waste repository on their territory, a site in the same area is now under consideration to store high-level radioactive waste. The Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO), a non-profit group responsible for the safe, long-term management of Canada’s used nuclear fuel, is looking to establish a permanent, deep geological repository site in the municipality of South Bruce or near Ignace in northwestern Ontario. This new dump site would accept spent fuel rods from the 18 nuclear reactors in Ontario and a single reactor in New Brunswick.
GBA will monitor and report on this proposal as it develops. Read more here.
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