Bruce Power President and CEO Duncan Hawthorne says the company has turned over a 4,000-page detailed environmental study of such a project.
The independent panel will review the findings and there will also be public meetings held on the results as well.
Hawthorne says the report represents two years worth of scientific and social analysis and is the first of kind in 40-years in North America.
Hawthorne says the study looks at the environmental impact of the project from the first hole drilled into the ground to a possible de-commissioning of the land and cleanup, should that time come decades from now.
He says they’ve studied the impact on vegetation, fish, water quality plus much more in the Bruce Power area.
Hawthorne says he has strived to have “transparency” with the project which is why Bruce Power has already held open houses on the work they’ve been doing.
He says he invites public input and there will be more meetings down the road.
The project involves the construction, operation and ongoing maintenance of new reactors for the supply of up to 4,000 megawatts of electricity to the Ontario grid by approximately 2016.
