Evaluate the design and containment alternatives for the surface 'low-level waste (LLW) and intermediate-level waste (ILW) storage facilities' to ensure zero-leakage performance.
Strategic Rationale
"The filing states that ILW, which contains long-lived radionuclides requiring isolation for hundreds of years, will be stored in surface facilities within the Protected Area. This creates a risk of soil and groundwater contamination distinct from the deep repository. The Environment Working Group must scrutinize these surface storage designs to ensure they are robust against local weather conditions and wear. This is an opportunity to demand higher safety margins for surface storage, preventing the site from becoming a source of localized contamination that could affect the surrounding land in Melgund."
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.