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NWMO considering two locations for deep geological repository The NWMO said it will use rail and road transportation to move more than five million spent nuclear fuel bundles to a deep geological repository site. Courtesy NWMO. Canada’s Nuclear Waste Management Organisation (NWMO will use rail and road transportation to move more than five million spent nuclear fuel bundles to a deep geological repository site, which will be selected in 2023, according to an initial plan unveiled this week.

The NWMO is considering two locations for the repository: a remote site about 35 km west of Ignace, northwestern Ontario, and one near the existing Bruce nuclear power station in southwestern Ontario.

It said transportation is an essential part of Canada’s plan for long-term management of the country’s used nuclear fuel. The used fuel will need to be moved from interim storage facilities near reactor sites across Canada to the deep geological repository site. The transportation programme is expected to begin in the 2040s, once the repository is operational.

The agency wants to have selected a repository site by 2023. It says it will not choose a site where there is opposition to the facility.

As of June last year, there were just over three million spent fuel bundles temporarily stored at eight interim storage facilities across Canada.

Date: Saturday, 08 January 2022
Original article: nucnet.org/news/waste-organisation-unveils-plans-for-spent-nuclear-fuel-transport-1-5-2022

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