An Environmental Assessment that endorses burying nuclear waste in southeastern Ontario will not have an impact on the potential plans to bury used nuclear fuel in Northern Ontario.
The deep underground bunker Ontario Power Generation is proposing near Kinkardine would hold more than two million cubic metres of low and intermediate fuel.
That includes floor sweepings, ashes and discarded parts of the reactor core.
The EA report on the planned repository was released Wednesday, and finds little risk to nearby Lake Huron.
That waste is handled differently than the high-level used nuclear fuel that the Nuclear Waste Management Organization is trying to find a home for.
Ignace, Hornepayne, White River and Manitouwadge are among nine sites still under consideration for an underground repository.
(TBT News)
