Canada has finally decided where to store its nuclear waste
It took 14 years to find a suitable site: a deep cavern in the rock
It took 14 years to find a spot on the barren saucer of ancient rock that encircles Hudson Bay, but on November 28th Canada’s nuclear waste was at last given a home. The Nuclear Waste Management Organisation (NWMO), a non-profit organisation established by Canada’s nuclear-power companies, announced that it had selected a site between Wabigoon Lake Ojibway Nation (WLON) and the town of Ignace, Ontario, to host a “deep geological repository”: a cavern drilled out of the rock, 500 metres underground, where Canada’s spent nuclear fuel will be stored in perpetuity.
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This article appeared in the The Americas section of the print edition under the headline “X marks the spot”
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