Final week to comment on NWMO’s DGR proposal on IAAC

This is the last week to comment on the proposal from the Nuclear Waste Management Organization on the Deep Geological Repository between Ignace and Wabigoon.

The NWMO has submitted a 12 hundred page description of the project.

Elyse Maisonneuve-Campbell with the Impact Assessment Agency of Canada says the DGR will house nuclear waste for thousands of years.

“The DGR is planned to permanently store 5.9 million bundles of used nuclear fuel, which would remain radioactive for millions of years,” Maisonneuve-Campbell told Dryden city council at its recent meeting.

Maisonneuve-Campbell says the DGR would be built in a fairly remote location between Ignace and Wabigoon.

“It entails a network of horizontal tunnels and rooms, at a depth greater than 500 meters, that would be excavated out of the bedrock, which the proponent has identified as being suitable for containment of nuclear waste.”

Opponents of the Deep Geological Repository argue the NWMO didn’t include any information about the transport of the spent nuclear fuel.

The last day to comment on the NWMO’s plans for the Deep Geological Repository is February 4th.

You can find more information about the project here