Nuclear Waste On-line 

Webinar Series presentations from past years are now available onthe Know Nuclear Waste YouTube Channel CLICK HERE 

The Nuclear Waste Management Organization says they are seeking an "informed and willing host". Read more about the NWMO "Willingness" Projects 

A NATIONAL REVIEW OF CANADA'S RADIOACTIVE WASTE POLICY WAS LAUNCHED IN NOVEMBER 2020 AND CONCLUDED IN 2023 WITH THE NUCLEAR INDUSTSRY IN THE DRIVER'S SEAT ​LEARN MORE HERE .

The Nuclear Waste Management Organization has now focused their investigation of potential burial sites for all of Canada's high level nuclear fuel waste on two remaining areas: the Revell Lake area, 45 kilometres west of Ignace, in northwestern Ontario, and an area just north of Teeswater in the Municiaplity of South Bruce in southwestern Ontario. 

Nuclear Waste On-line is a series of on-line presentations about nuclear waste in Canada. For the previous sessions click HERE.

Nuclear Waste Online 2024 

Week 1 | Thursday, February 8th, 7 pm Eastern / 6 pm Central
Canada Update 2024: Nuclear Waste & the Nuclear Waste Management Organization. View the recording HERE 

Week 2 – Thursday, February 15th, 7 pm EST / 6 pm CST
Securing the Future: A Risk-Reduced Approach to Nuclear Fuel Waste Management. View the recording HERE 

Week 3 | Thursday, February 22nd, 7 pm EST / 6 pm CST
Energy, Nuclear Waste, and Indigenous Decision-making
View the recording​ HERE

Week 4 – Thursday, February 29th, 7 pm EST / 6 pm CST
Radioactive Waste Policy in Canada – where did it go? 
 View the recording HERE 

Coming Events

Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission Meeting on February 21 will include CNSC staff presentation of the revised regulatory document for Licence to Prepare Site for a Deep Geological Repository. Details are HERE​

Welcome

Welcome to our information web site about nuclear waste. 

This site has been created to provide ordinary people with information about an extra-ordinary challenge: the long term management of the highly radioactive waste that is created as a byproduct of using nuclear power to generate electricity.

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. 

As of August 2012 twenty-two communities were allowing themselves to be studied 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. 

In November 2013 the NWMO dropped two from northern Saskatchewan and two from northern Ontario. In January 2014, two communities in Bruce County were dropped, and in June 2014 the town of Nipigon withdrew. The NWMO dropped Brockton in December 2014, and Spanish and the Township of the North Shore in January 2015. In February 2015, Creighton, Saskatchewan and Schreiber, Ontario were removed from the NWMO investigations. The Municipality of Central Huron and the Township of White River were dropped by the NWMO in June 2017, and in December NWMO announced that the area around Blind River and Elliot Lake, Ontario, will no longer be considered. In November 2019  the Townships of Hornepayne and Manitouwadge were taken off NWMO’s list, and in January  2020 NWMO announced that it had signed agreements with landowners in South Bruce , and would no longer consider Huron Kinloss as a potential host.

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. 

A public interest information project about nuclear waste burial in Canada.

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