Nuclear Waste Ontario

Ontario power generation pulls plug on plan to bury nuclear waste near lake huron you cant really absorb it all.

Lethal weapon season 1 cold war cod. The nuclear waste management organization nwmo of canada was established in 2002 under the nuclear fuel waste act nfwa to investigate approaches for managing canadas used nuclear fuelcurrently nuclear power plants are operating in ontario and new brunswick. The nwmo operates on a not for profit basis and derives its mandate from the federal nuclear fuel waste act. Historic low level radioactive waste is present within the ontario municipalities of port hope and clarington.

In 2015 plans were introduced in canada to create a low level radioactive waste site in ontario. The organization was created in 2002 by canadas nuclear electricity producers. Yet many of its benefits are often overshadowed by misconceptions around nuclear waste and its management.

We now know exactly where a proposed underground facility to house canadas nuclear waste will be if it comes to fruition. Your mind is going a hundred miles this way that way with questions but you. Ontario power proposed to bury 200000 cubic meters of low and intermediate level radioactive waste from its nuclear power plants in a thick layer of limestone 680 meters below ground about a kilometer from lake huron.

The nuclear waste management organization nwmo is responsible for designing and implementing canadas plan for the safe long term management of used nuclear fuel. The nuclear waste management organization nwmo has secured. Proposed 1500 acre site mapped out for canadian nuclear waste storage in south bruce ont.

Its widespread use in ontario is why the province has one of the lowest carbon intensive electricity sectors in the world. Ontario power generation says it will go back to the drawing board in trying to find a permanent solution to storing nuclear waste created by activity at the bruce power nuclear generating station. Scott miller ctv news london videographer atscottmillerctv october 15 2020 teeswater ont.

Ontario power generation nb power and hydro quebec are the founding members and along with atomic energy of canada limited fund the nwmos operations. The waste which is no longer produced resulted from radium and uranium refining by a former federal crown corporation eldorado nuclear and its private sector predecessors from the 1930s to 1980s.