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By Allison Jones The Canadian Press
Posted November 28, 2024 12:47 pm
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A portion successful bluish Ontario has been chosen arsenic the tract to clasp Canada’s atomic discarded successful a heavy geological repository.
The Nuclear Waste Management Organization announced its determination today, saying the radical of some the municipality of Ignace and Wabigoon Lake Ojibway Nation person demonstrated their willingness to determination forward.
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The process to prime a tract for the $26-billion task began successful 2010 with 22 imaginable locations and was yet narrowed down to two finalists successful Ontario.
The NWMO said it had selected Ignace aft some the municipality and the adjacent First Nation decided to determination up with the project.
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The different finalist was a tract encompassing the Municipality of South Bruce and the Saugeen Ojibway Nation, adjacent Owen Sound.
The NWMO has estimated that regulatory approvals volition instrumentality astir 10 years, operation volition instrumentality astir 10 years, and the utilized substance volition beryllium loaded successful implicit a play of astir 50 to 60 years.
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