“The next step is the 10-year regulatory decision-making process,” a regional Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO) spokesman said last week in an email.

The proposed 600-metre-deep geological repository would see spent nuclear waste contained behind multiple barriers, including copper casks, bentonite clay, layers of concrete and the geology ...

A First Nation in southwestern Ontario says even if the community votes yes on a proposed $26 billion dump for nuclear waste within their traditional territory, it would likely be opposed by other ...

Canada’s nuclear waste exceeds the energy equivalence of Alberta’s oil sands by a large margin, and the current available amount (approximately 60,000 tons, stored safely at licensed nuclear ...

The Canadian government has yet to decide whether it would allow recycling spent nuclear fuel in the country, as the Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO) announces it will be engaging with the ...

“But there is other material still out there called intermediate level waste and there may be new types of small modular nuclear reactors that could become operational in the next 10 to 20 years.

SAINT JOHN, NB, March 3, 2025 /CNW/ - Moltex Energy Canada Inc. (Moltex) has developed a game changing nuclear waste management technology. Its Waste to Stable Salt (WATSS) process transforms used ...

Used nuclear fuel loses about 99 per cent of its radioactivity in the first 10 years after removal from the reactor, but it takes about a million years for it to reach the original level of ...

Around the same time, Manitoba citizens convinced our government to oppose another proposed U.S. nuclear waste site — with potential for drainage to the Red River.

The nest was located on a post near massive storage tanks containing liquid nuclear waste. Radiation levels in the nest were ...

Intermediate radioactive waste is stored in containers buried just at the surface at the Bruce Nuclear site near Kincardine, north of London, Ont. in this May 2013 photo.