Ontario Power Generation has completed its latest round of open houses on its proposed Deep Geologic Respository project at the Bruce site.
Spokesperson Marie Wilson says they conducted open house information sessions in seven different communities since November 3rd and they talked to 150 people.
Wilson says the biggest issue was people wanted assurances that the project would contain only low and intermediate level nuclear waste which was the company’s plan from the beginning.
Another issue that surfaced was protection of the water tables in the area.
Wilson says OPG chose the Bruce site area for the repository because of the make-up of the rock underground which will keep the buried waste from leeching into any water supplies or Lake Huron.
Wilson says the company will continue to talk to anyone who wants to listen about their project.
OPG is 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 680 meters underground.
