You have the opportunity to find out the latest on plans for the Deep Geological Repository (DGR) at the Bruce nuclear site near Tiverton.
The planned facility will be 680 metres underground and will house low and intermediate level radioactive waste from nuclear reactor facilities across Ontario.
A series of open houses takes place over the next two weeks.
The first one is today from 4 PM to 8 PM in Kincardine at the Davidson Centre.
The next one is on Tuesday at the Ripley Huron Community Centre, others follow this week on Wednesday at Victoria Jubilee Hall in Walkerton, and Thursday at the Colonial Motel in Port Elgin.
The open houses continue on November 9th at the fire hall in Chesley, Tuesday November 10th at the Harry Lumley Bayshore Community Centre in Owen Sound, and the final one is on Thursday November 12th at the Wiarton and District Community Centre.
Nuclear Waste Management Organization Media Relations Manager Marie Wilson says they want to make sure they maintain community support for the project.
She says open houses allow them to gauge if opinion has changed, and new people always show up at open houses who haven’t been at previous ones.
Wilson says low level radioactive waste includes items used for cleanup and maintenance in generating stations, and intermediate level items include things used to keep plant water systems clean.
She stresses that no “spent fuel” from reactors will be put in the DGR.
Wilson once the Deep Geologic Repository is constructed, all of the waste currently stored above ground at the Bruce site’s Western Waste Management Facility will be sent underground.