Ontario Power Generation is ready to begin its second round of open houses to give you an opportunity to discuss the proposed Deep Geologic Repository project in Bruce County.
Speaking on Sounding Media Relations Manager for OPG’s Western Waste Management Facility in Bruce County says they’re proposing to take all of the low and intermediate level waste which comes from all the reactors at Bruce, Darlington and Pickering nuclear stations and bury it underground.
Wilson says the waste will be buried about 680 meters underground where they will manage it permanently at the Bruce Site.
Wilson points out the material will be in a chamber underground that is further down than Toronto’s CN Tower is up.
She says there are not proposing, nor will they be equipped to take high level waste which is known as used or spent fuel.
Wilson says as part of their continuing environmental assessment procedures into the project, they are holding another series of open house to discuss one-on-one with anyone who has any questions or concerns about the plan.
The open houses begin tonight in Kincardine at the Governor’s Inn.
Other meetings will be held in Ripley at the Ripley Huron Community Centre on Tuesday, Nov. 4th; Walkerton’s Victoria Jubilee Hall on Wednesday, Nov. 5th; Colonial Motel in Port Elgin on Thursday, Nov. 6th; Best Western Inn on the Bay in Owen Sound on Monday, Nov. 10th; Wiarton and District Community Centre on Tuesday Nov. 11th; and at the Chesley Fire Hall in Chesley on Thursday, Nov. 13th.
All open houses run from 4pm to 8pm.
