The Nuclear Waste Management Organization has selected five companies to work with to design and plan the deep geological repository for used nuclear fuel that will be built in northwestern Ontario.

OTTAWA, ON, April 10, 2026 /CNW/ - The Impact Assessment Agency of Canada (IAAC) and the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) are conducting an integrated assessment for the proposed Deep ...

Jerry Keto hunches his shoulders against the rain spit, against the nasty grey day that has fallen like a shroud over the eastern shore of Lake Huron. Yet he seems inured to the weather, as he has ...

The pace and scale of the upswing in interest and ambitions in countries wishing to expand or introduce nuclear power is astonishing. While large, advanced reactors (ARs) are central to many plans for ...

Currently, there are thousands of metric tons of used solid fuel from nuclear power plants worldwide and millions of liters of radioactive liquid waste from weapons production sitting in temporary ...

This presentation explores the role of microorganisms in the engineered barrier system of a deep geological repository (DGR) for used nuclear fuel, with a focus on bentonite clay and surrounding ...

Ignace Receives $10 Million from NWMO Hosting Agreement. IGNACE — The Township of Ignace has received a $10-million payment ...

TORONTO, March 8, 2024 /CNW/ - The Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO) has published new research – the 2023 Confidence in Safety reports – representing each of the two potential sites under ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An aerial shot of the site in northwestern Ontario that's being eyed for Canada's first deep geological repository for nuclear ...

Sweden has broken ground on its final repository for spent nuclear fuel (SNF)—a milestone reached after 40 years of research and development—making it the world’s second deep geological repository ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The first repository in the Township of Ignace will store used nuclear fuel from used reactors. (Nuclear Waste Management ...