Nuclear Waste Management Organization taking extra year to pick storage site as it seeks local support

The industry-funded non-profit says Ontario sites in Ignace and South Bruce both meet technical and scientific requirements for a deep geological repository for high-level nuclear waste, but the project will only go ahead with 'informed and willing hosts.'
An anti-nuclear sign on a farm in South Bruce, Ont., next to the proposed site of a deep geological repository for high-level nuclear waste.

The organization tasked with developing a long-term storage solution for Canada's roughly three million bundles—and counting—of spent nuclear fuel rods says it has concluded that both finalist sites are technically and scientifically sound for the purpose. But the Nuclea...

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