In Canada - as in several other countries that use nuclear power - the nuclear industry is committed to the idea of burying the nuclear fuel waste in a rock formation in a yet-to-be-identified location. In 2002 the federal government gave the nuclear industry permission to organize themselves as the Nuclear Waste Management Organization and so relaunch their search for a suitable site and a willing community, and in May 2010 the Nuclear Waste Management Organization formally launched their search for just such a community.
Between 2010 and 2020 twenty-two municipal councils allowed their community and surrounding areas to be studied by the NWMO as possible end points for all of Canada's high level nuclear waste: three in northern Saskatchewan, thirteen in northern Ontario, and six in southwestern Ontario.
Two areas remain under investigation: the Revell Lake area, 35 kilometres west of Ignace, in northwestern Ontario, and an area just north of Teeswater in the Municipality of South Bruce in southwestern Ontario.
Between 2010 and 2020 twenty-two municipal councils allowed their community and surrounding areas to be studied by the NWMO as possible end points for all of Canada's high level nuclear waste: three in northern Saskatchewan, thirteen in northern Ontario, and six in southwestern Ontario.
Two areas remain under investigation: the Revell Lake area, 35 kilometres west of Ignace, in northwestern Ontario, and an area just north of Teeswater in the Municipality of South Bruce in southwestern Ontario.
Learn more about high level nuclear waste in Canada and the nuclear industry's campaign to bury all of Canada's highly radioactive nuclear fuel waste in a single location deep underground.
Know Nuclear Waste is a public interest information project about nuclear fuel waste in Canada.
