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Should South Bruce become the future home of Canada’s spent nuclear waste it will receive $418 million over the project’s lifespan. At a special meeting held May 1, South Bruce council authorized the signing of a hosting agreement between the municipality and Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO) detailing the benefits to and responsibilities of the […]

The $418 million hosting agreement signed May 1 by the Nuclear Waste Management Organization and South Bruce is a complex 50-plus page document. Perhaps it is fittingly dense for a first-of-its-kind project in Canada with a 100-plus year lifespan that will transform whichever municipality is chosen to host Canada’s high-level nuclear waste deep underground. Some […]