Comment by Wednesday midnight on NWMO Nuclear Waste Project | Nuclear Waste Online Webinar Series February 5, 12, 19 & 26

[Michael J Keegan]

Dear No Nuke Community,

 

The Great Lakes will be impacted, and the U.S. has been courting foreign high level nuclear waste.  Please Comment.

N2

MJK

 

From Brennain

 

NWMO Project Comment Deadline is February 4, Webinar series starts February 5! Join us every Thursday in February

View this email in your browser Comment by Wednesday midnight on NWMO Nuclear Waste Scheme You have until February 4th to comment on a nuclear waste transportation and burial scheme that will span 50 years of transportation, 160 years of operations and a million years of radioactive risk. A federal review of the Nuclear Waste Management Organization’s proposed Deep Geological Repository for high-level radioactive waste was launched on January 5, 2026, with a 30-day comment period on the NWMO’s Initial Project Description. Your voice is important – please submit your comment calling for a full impact assessment and public hearing and insisting that transportation of the radioactive wastes be included.   The NWMO intends to send 2-3 trucks per day for fifty years; trips will average 1,800 km over mostly two-lane public roads, travelling from nuclear generating stations in southern Ontario and eastern Canada to the NWMO’s proposed site in the headwaters of the Wabigoon River in northwestern Ontario). The NWMO is pushing to have transportation EXCLUDED from the impact assessment. For more information visit We the Nuclear Free North or the Impact Assessment Agency’s pages. Submit a comment through the IAAC comment portal or send by email to nuclearwaste-de...@iaac-aeic.gc.ca. The comment period closes on February 4. Read We the Nuclear Free North's February 1 Bulletin with tips, templates, links and more HERE.  Summary IPD    Full IPD    Public Comments    Email to send Comments     All Records   Join us for our Fourteenth Annual Webinar Series about Nuclear Waste in Canada - Every Thursday in February Each year, this series explores important topics about nuclear waste in Canada with a focus on the generation, transportation and proposed burial of highly radioactive nuclear fuel waste. For details please visit KnowNuclearWaste.ca or Northwatch.org. An overview and update on the Nuclear Waste Management Organization's efforts to develop a deep geological repository for all of Canada’s high level nuclear fuel waste, now proposed for the Revell site in northwestern Ontario. The webinar will provide an update on the NWMO technical program and promotional activities, and next steps on the federal review of the NWMO’s waste launched on January 5th. Register HERE  The climate crisis has provided new cover for the promotion of nuclear power with the nuclear lobby claiming we already have the technology, ready to be perfected and deployed. But as M. V. Ramana argues in his  book such thinking is both naïve and dangerous. Beyond the horrific risk of severe accidents and the intrac­table problem of waste, nuclear energy fails the two key tests for any climate solution: cost and time. More expensive than wind and solar, and far slower to bring online. Presentation followed by conversation with M.V. Ramana. Register HERE From construction underway for not-so-small “Small Modular Reactors” at the Darlington site to plans for new mega-reactors at the Bruce Nuclear Generating Station, Peace River and now Wesleyville, the nuclear industry is running a seeming juggernaut nuclear expansion campaign and governments are on nuclear spending sprees. Join this session to hear about nuclear expansion plans in Canada, from New Brunswick to Alberta. 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