ABOUT NUCLEAR WASTE WATCH
Nuclear Waste Watch / Action déchets nucléaires is a national network of Canadian organizations concerned about high level radioactive waste and nuclear power. Our Position Statement summarizes our concerns and key issues, and our list of Participating Organizations tells you who we are.
Nuclear Waste Watch / Action déchets nucléaires was founded in November 2003, to provide a public-interest response to the Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO). The NWMO is controlled by the nuclear industry and was mandated by the federal government under the Nuclear Fuel Waste Act to make a recommendation on the long-term management of high level radioactive waste (irradiated fuel) by November 2005. In 2007, the federal government approved the Nuclear Waste Management Organizations proposed plan, and in 2010 the Nuclear Waste Management Organization officially launched its search for communities willing to be studied as possible burial locations for all of Canada’s high level nuclear waste. As of November 2012, 21 communities were under investigation. As of January 2020, two municipalities remain in the NWMO siting process.
Nuclear Waste Watch is primarily focused on high level radioactive waste and its generation through the use of nuclear power in Canada, but shares the concerns of communities and organizations with respect to a proposal by Ontario Power Generation to bury low and intermediate level radioactive wastes beside Lake Huron, beneath the Bruce Nuclear site and communities and organizations in the Ottawa Valley and downstream of the Chalk River Nuclear Laboratories where a massive on-surface radioactive waste "mound" has been proposed by a consortium of multi-national companies.
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Position Statement
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Nuclear Waste Watch / Action déchets nucléaires is a national network of Canadian organizations concerned about high level radioactive waste and nuclear power. Our Position Statement summarizes our concerns and key issues, and our list of Participating Organizations tells you who we are.
Nuclear Waste Watch / Action déchets nucléaires was founded in November 2003, to provide a public-interest response to the Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO). The NWMO is controlled by the nuclear industry and was mandated by the federal government under the Nuclear Fuel Waste Act to make a recommendation on the long-term management of high level radioactive waste (irradiated fuel) by November 2005. In 2007, the federal government approved the Nuclear Waste Management Organizations proposed plan, and in 2010 the Nuclear Waste Management Organization officially launched its search for communities willing to be studied as possible burial locations for all of Canada’s high level nuclear waste. As of November 2012, 21 communities were under investigation. As of January 2020, two municipalities remain in the NWMO siting process.
Nuclear Waste Watch is primarily focused on high level radioactive waste and its generation through the use of nuclear power in Canada, but shares the concerns of communities and organizations with respect to a proposal by Ontario Power Generation to bury low and intermediate level radioactive wastes beside Lake Huron, beneath the Bruce Nuclear site and communities and organizations in the Ottawa Valley and downstream of the Chalk River Nuclear Laboratories where a massive on-surface radioactive waste "mound" has been proposed by a consortium of multi-national companies.
Members / Endorsing Organizations
Position Statement
Leaflet
Archives
