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Canada’s Nuclear Waste Management Organisation (NWMO) has completed a deep borehole drilling programme after more than 10 years studying the geology in two potential siting areas for a deep geological repository to contain and isolate Canada’s used nuclear fuel.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Tuesday, 12 April 2022
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newscanada-completes-deep-borehole-drilling-programme-9616857
Canada's Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO) has completed its deep borehole drilling programme to understand the subsurface geology in the two areas that will potentially host a deep geological repository for the nation's used nuclear fuel. The programme will help inform the final selection of a site.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Saturday, 09 April 2022
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Canadian-waste-organisation-completes-borehole-pro
Geoscientists from the US Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and from the Sandia and Los Alamos national labs, are collaborating on the HotBENT project. This is an international field experiment to evaluate how well the natural, clay-based material (bentonite) placed around canisters of buried, high-level waste (HLW) retains its safety functions when exposed to simulated long-term heating.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 26 January 2022
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newshotbent-project-investigatse-safety-material-for-underground-waste-disposal-sites-9432236
Canada’s Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO) on 16 January completed drilling its first 1000m test hole in the Ignace area. It is one of five sites in Ontario to be investigated for siting a deep repository for the long-term management of used nuclear fuel. The test site is in the Revell Batholith rock formation some 35km west of Ignace.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Tuesday, 23 January 2018
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newstest-drilling-begins-for-canadian-repository-6033170