Nuclear Waste in Canada
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NUCLEAR WASTE IN CANADA 

Welcome
For decades the nuclear industry has been skirting the question of what to do with the nuclear wastes they generate through the use of nuclear power by talk of "geological disposal". Their idea is to bury the highly radioactive wastes - hazardous for time periods longer than known history - deep below the surface of the earth. The problems are many. First, the risks of transferring and transporting the wastes, potentially long distances. Second, the "technology" of deep burial is unproven. Third, the radioactive hazards will long outlast any containers.
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In Canada, there are three different nuclear waste burial schemes that the industry has publicly acknowledged (and there may be more): ​
  • Ontario Power Generation began promoting a plan to bury low and intermediate level radioactive wastes beneath the Bruce Nuclear Generating Station in Kincardine on the shore of Lake Huron in 2004. In 2013 OPG said the project would not move forward with out the support of the Saugeen Ojibway Nation, and in January 2020 SON membership soundly rejected the project. In May 2020 OPG finally withdrew their application and the EA was terminated in June. With no actual plan in place or on the horizon, OPG says they are looking at options. But while they do that, the Nuclear Waste Management Organization - OPG's national front group - has moved outside its mandate to develop an "Integrated Radioactive Waste Strategy" for low and intermediate level  radioactive waste, proclaiming the high level  waste problem to have been solved!
  • The Nuclear Waste Management Organization is searching for a site to bury all of Canada's highly radioactive fuel waste and is now investigating two areas: the Revell Lake area between Ignace and Dryden in Treaty 3 territory in northwestern Ontario and rich farm lands just north of Teeswater in South Bruce, in the territory of the Saugeen Ojibway Nation. ​​
  • And Canadian Nuclear Laboratories is carrying forward an earlier plan by Atomic Energy of Canada Limited  to bury decades-worth of research and operating waste beneath the Chalk River National Laboratory beside the Ottawa River, as well as constructing a "Near Surface Disposal Facility" - a radioactive mound - on surface at the same site. CNL also plans to entomb closed reactors at Rophton and Pinawa.
CONTINUED NUCLEAR WASTE GENERATION
In addition to the massive stockpiles of already created radioactive wastes, the nuclear industry and federal government are working together to create more. Uranium mines and mills continue to operate in Saskatchewan with more proposed, uranium is refined and converted to nuclear fuel in Ontario, a fleet of reactors continue to operate in Ontario and New Brunswick, with reactors at the Bruce and Darlington Nuclear Generating Stations undergoing refurbishment. Add to this, the federal government is in the throes of a bromance with Small Modular Reactors.  
THIS WEBSITE IS TO SERVE AS A "SWITCHBOARD" TO  ORGANIZATIONS, WEB SITES AND LINKS ABOUT NUCLEAR WASTE IN CANADA. 
Featured Sites
Know Nuclear Waste
Nuclear Waste Watch
We the Nuclear Free North
Protect South Bruce - No DGRs
Radioactive Roads

Stop SMRs in Canada

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Host
Northwatch

International NGOs
Alliance for Nuclear Accountability (U.S.)
Greenpeace International
Institute for Energy and Environmental Research
Natural Resources Defence Council    
Nuclear Information and Resource Service 
World Information Services on Energy


Government
CEAA Review of Ontario Power Generation's Proposed Deep Geological Repository
Natural Resources Canada Radioactive Waste Review
Nuclear Fuel Waste Bureau
Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission

Industry
Nuclear Waste Management Organization

Additional Links

Bruce Nuclear Waste Burial
​Canadian Association of Physicans for the Environment
Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility
Canadian Environmental Law Association
Citizens Environmental Alliance of Southwestern Ontario

Coalition Against Nuclear Dumps on the Ottawa River
Coalition for Responsible Energy Development in New Brunswick (CRED-NB)
Committee for Future Generations - Northern Saskatchewan
Concerned Citizens of Renfrew County and Area
Conservation Council of New Brunswick
Council of Canadians
David Suzuki Foundation
Durham Nuclear Awareness
Ecojustice
Energy Probe
Environment North
Greenpeace Canada
Huron Grey Bruce Citizens Committee on Nuclear Waste
International Institute of Concern for Public Health
Inter-Church Uranium Committee 
Lake Ontario Waterkeeper
Mouvement Verte Maurice
National Council of Women
No Nuclear Waste in Northwestern Ontario (Dryden area)
North West Nuclear Watch (Atikokan area)
Northwatch
Nuclear Ontario
Nuclear Waste Watch
Ontario Clean Air Alliance
Ontario Sustainable Energy Association
Ottawa Riverkeeper
Pembina Institute
Physicians for Global Survival
Port Hope Community Health Concerns Committee
Port Hope Families Against Radiation Exposure
Protect Our Waterways - NO DGR (South Bruce) 
Resau quebecois des groupes ecologistes 
Science for Peace
Sierra Club of Canada

SOS Great Lakes
Stop Small Modular Reactors - Canada 

Stop SMRs in Canada
Stop the Great Lakes Nuclear Dump

Sunset Spirit Country Alliance (Dryden and area)
Tritium Awareness Peterborough
United Church of Canada
Voice of Women for Peace
We the Nuclear Free North (Northern Ontario alliance)
Stay in touch!
Stop SMRs
Nuclear Waste Watch
Know Nuclear Waste

News Sites
Energy Mix Newsletter

​Know Nuclear Waste
News and views from communities being studied as possible nuclear waste burial sites.

No-Nuke News 
News and information from around the world on why nuclear is not the solution to our energy needs.
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Nevada News Feed
U.S. and international news stories

NucNet
An industry news service about the operation and construction of nuclear power stations, policies affecting the nuclear industry, nuclear safety and security and emerging nuclear technologies.
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