Request a detailed safety analysis of 'concurrent' underground development and waste emplacement, focusing on vibration and accident risks.
Strategic Rationale
The submission states that 'lateral development... would continue to occur in parallel with the packaging and emplacement activities.' This means blasting and excavation will happen alongside the handling of high-level nuclear waste. This dual-track operation increases the complexity of the safety case. The Working Group must demand a rigorous analysis of how construction accidents or vibrations could impact the integrity of waste emplacement operations, ensuring worker and community safety is not compromised by aggressive scheduling.
Source Context
Understanding the Impacts of Nuclear Waste on our Community
This digital archive houses the public comments submitted to the Impact Assessment Agency of Canada regarding Project 88774: The Nuclear Waste Management Organization Deep Geological Repository (DGR) for Canada's Used Nuclear Fuel Project. The impact assessment is led jointly by the Impact Assessment Agency of Canada and the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission. This archive preserves community perspectives, concerns, and observations shared during the assessment process, particularly in relation to Melgund Township, Northwestern Ontario and the communities of Dyment and Borups Corners who are the closest and most impacted of all in the process.