Confidence in safety – Revell site – 2023 update

The Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO) is presently in a multi-year process of identifying a safe site for a deep geological repository for Canada's used nuclear fuel in an area with informed and willing hosts (NWMO 2010). This is similar to plans in other countries with nuclear power programs, including Finland, Sweden, France and Switzerland, which have sites for their deep geological repositories for nuclear fuel waste. The Government of Canada selected the deep geologic repository approach in 2007, and assigned the NWMO with the task of siting, building and operating this repository. The NWMO has responded with a siting program that includes discussions and planning with communities, and conducting technical and social studies. Early assessments were summarized in a series of reports available on the NWMO website at www.nwmo.ca/studyareas. These discussions and studies have identified two candidate siting areas – one in northwestern Ontario and one in southern Ontario. This report focuses on the Revell Site in the Wabigoon Lake Ojibway Nation (WLON) – Ignace area. This site is located approximately 21 km southeast of the Wabigoon Lake Ojibway Nation and 43 km northwest of the Town of Ignace. The site is on the Canadian Shield, about 260 km north of Lake Superior. (author)