This township along the Trans-Canada Highway may be Canada first host municipality for an underground nuclear waste facility, but it might not be the only one – eventually. The Nuclear Waste ...

However, in terms of critical issues, such as the advancing age of these plants, the costs needed to extend their service life, the looming threat of earthquakes, as well as contentious storage ...

She places the blame squarely at the feet of the federal government, which broke its promise to provide a secure, permanent home for spent nuclear waste from the nation’s power plants.

The planned containment mound, to be built at ground surface level, is designed to hold up to one million cubic metres of radioactive low-level nuclear waste. But First Nations from Ontario and ...