Inquire about the technical methodology used to distinguish between 'perceptions of risk' and 'empirical environmental risk' in the context of groundwater integrity and radiological safety.
Strategic Rationale
While community perceptions are important for social license, the Local Services Board must ensure that safety assessments are grounded in rigorous, empirical data to manage actual physical risks to the local environment.
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.