Nuclear Waste Watch

Join We the Nuclear Free North for an informal online discussion to debrief on the NWMO's November 28th announcement that it had selected the Revell site in northwestern Ontario for nuclear waste burial. Register for the December 10th session at tinyurl.com/mr3yjmb8

Canadian Dimension ran an excellent article on the NWMO's selection of the Revell site in the heart of Treaty 3 territory in northwestern Ontario for nuclear waste disposal amidst regional opposition. canadiandimension.com/articles/view/…

NWMO has selected the Revell site, in the heart of Treaty 3 Territory in northwestern Ontario as their target for the transportation, processing, burial and abandonment of all of Canada's high-level nuclear fuel waste. share.sender.net/campaigns/9kE1…

Plans to send thousands of shipments of radioactive waste through northern Ontario to the Chalk River nuclear laboratories site on the Ottawa River are on the agenda at today's CNSC hearing. Tune in for presentations by CELA, CCRCA and Northwatch at cnsc.isilive.ca

Academic and long-time nuclear waste expert Dr. William Leiss nails it: "Canada’s false ‘solution’ for used nuclear fuel waste - Potentially trucking waste to a deep geological repository could be a recipe for disaster." hilltimes.com/story/2024/10/…

The French nuclear mega-company has dropped its plans for small modular reactors due to costs and customers concerns. #SMRs reneweconomy.com.au/french-nuclear…

Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) are being presented as the next generation of nuclear technology, championed as cheaper, safer, and faster to deploy. But evidence casts doubt on these claims. #smrs energypost.eu/are-the-prospe…

Finland's Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority (Stuk) has announced it will require more time to review the operating application for the proposed geological repository for nuclear fuel waste at Onkalo and has requested more information from Posiva. yle.fi/a/74-20052237

More than two years after it provided tens of millions of dollars to a company seeking to reprocess spent nuclear fuel, the Canadian government has yet to decide whether the practice should be allowed on Canadian soil. theglobeandmail.com/business/artic…

Lapses in safety at already operating nuclear laboratory facilities are warning signs for how the "safety culture" of the nuclear industry may fail workers and area residents at facilities proposed for Canada. nmpoliticalreport.com/2023/07/17/saf…

☢️🇪🇺#Transparency and European Radwaste in 2023. Short and (very) long issue, radioactive waste are facing very different situations regarding transparency though out Europe. Follow our webinar series on 9 national cases (early/advanced ; small/large): nuclear-transparency-watch.eu/documentation/…

Great events coming up in Dryden, Ignace and Thunder Bay next week. Join author and geographer Warren Bernauer for a discussion of the book "I Will Live for Both of Us" co-authored with Innuit elder Joanie Scott chronicling decades spent protecting the Inuit hunting way of life.

Civil society groups are expressing profound disappointment in the federal government’s recently released radioactive waste policy, after Natural Resources Canada quietly posted the final policy to a government website on Friday morning. preview.mailerlite.com/c5b8z0s1p6/218…

Go to reprocessing.ca and take one minute to register for the March 29 webinar with Paul McKay, author of "Atomic Accomplice: How Canada Deals in Deadly Deceit". And while you're there, take one more minute and send a message to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau #nuclearwaste

Join author Paul Mckay for a conversation about the 2023 edition of Atomic Accomplice, March 29th @ 7 pm Eastern. Go to reprocessing.ca to register and to AtomicAccomplice.ca to download the book. #plutonium #nuclearweapons #NuclearPower

It's tonight! Important webinar about plutonium, reprocessing nuclear waste, and the nuclear weapons connection. Go to reprocessing.ca to register.

How about it OPG and CNSC? Would you participate in a public forum about dry storage containers for nuclear fuel waste? #nuclearwaste #OPG #CNSC #radioactive #Darlington #Pickering

Thursday, February 16 at 7 pm Eastern, join the webinar "Nuclear Neighbours: Living with a nuclear polluter in our midst", and learn more about residents' experience with nuclear facilities in Port Hope, Chalk River and Peterborough. Go to knownuclearwaste.ca to register.

Canada must ban nuclear waste reprocessing to honour our commitment to non-proliferation. Visit reprocessing.ca to learn more.

Today Nuclear Waste Watch launched a campaign to have a ban on the reprocssing of nuclear fuel waste included in Canada's radioactive waste policy (currently under review). Lots to read and watch on the web page, and more to come in the weeks ahead. Visit reprocessing.ca