Bruce County’s warden will be on a fact-finding mission in rural Finland with the Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO).
South Bruce is one of two communities in Ontario being studied by the NWMO as a potential location for a deep geologic repository to store Canada’s used nuclear fuel.
The NWMO is taking a large delegation of members from South Bruce’s council, along with smaller delegations from Huron-Kinloss, and Warden Chris Peabody — who is also the mayor of Brockton.
Peabody says that there are a number of things that those travelling to Europe can learn from the Finns.
The ONKALO Repository, which is located in the Finnish municipality of Olkiluoto and run by the energy company Posiva, is situated as far as 455 metres underground in the bedrock, with final nuclear waste disposal operations set to happen between 400-430 metres below ground, and will also include 40km of tunnels.
Peabody says that it’s important to touch base with a community that has already begun such an endeavour, “Construction of the DGR is an eight-year mining project and dangerous work, so what are those cost impacts on our hospitals and EMS?”
The NWMO is also bringing along community members who are opposed to the DGR.
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