What is the governments long-term plan for nuclear waste?
In 2002, theCanadian government mandated a nuclear industry-controlled agencycalled the Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO) to propose along-term solution for the disposal of high-level nuclear waste (spentfuel). The nuclear industry has always advocated the burial ofhigh-level nuclear waste in the granite formations of the CanadianShield. The federalgovernment gave NWMO a three-year mandate to choose between threeradioactive waste management alternatives: “deep geological disposal inthe Canadian Shield”; “storage at nuclear sites”; or “centralizedstorage”. In 2005, the NWMOasked the federal government for permission to proceed with a proposalthat combined all three flawed waste management alternatives called’Adaptive Phased Management.’ The 300-year, $24 billion “phased”approach moves used nuclear fuel wastes from storage at nuclear plants,to centralized storage, and finally to deep rock disposal. It says thehigh-level radioactive waste dump should be located in either Quebec
