New Campaign From NWMO – Answering Nuclear Questions
“Ask the NWMO” is a question-and-answer feature that will be appearing regularly on OntarioNewsNorth.com providing an opportunity for you to pose questions directly to NWMO staff about Canada’s plan for managing used nuclear fuel over the long term.
Communities like Wawa, Schreiber, Nipigon and others in Northern Ontario, are in the early stages of learning more about that plan, which requires that the used fuel be safely and securely contained and isolated in a deep geological repository in a suitable rock formation.
- Do you have questions about how used nuclear fuel is safely transported?
- Do you want to know more about how the storage site would be built and how it would operate?
- Are you unclear about environmental safeguards or the impact on the local economy?
Ask!
The NWMO wants you to have the facts and OntarioNewsNorth.com is excited to be hosting the “Ask the NWMO” feature.
Canada’s plan for managing used nuclear fuel is a long-term infrastructure project that will cost from $16 billion to $24 billion to implement. You have a right to accurate information from qualified people. The NWMO has those people, and they want to answer your questions.
In May 2010, the NWMO published a process for identifying an informed and willing community to host a deep geological repository for storing Canada’s used nuclear fuel. The NWMO anticipates that it will take between 7 and 10 years to decide on where to locate the repository and associated facilities. Learning about the project does not commit a community to anything. Learning enables the community and surrounding areas, including Aboriginal people, to understand the project and to have informed discussions.
“Ask the NWMO” is an advertising feature to be published regularly on OntarioNewsNorth.com to respond to readers’ questions about Canada’s plan for managing used nuclear fuel over the long term. The NWMO welcomes your queries. Ask whatever is on your mind — there is no such thing as a bad question.
The NWMO will take on one or two questions in each edition of “Ask the NWMO”; when many similar questions are being asked they will be grouped together under a topic or theme.
