Geological study work continues for the proposed Deep Geological Repository at the Bruce Power site and a change has been made in who oversees the process.
Ontario Power Generation has contracted the project to the Nuclear Waste Management Organization.
Senior Communications Advisor Kevin Orr says the change took effect at the beginning of this year.
He says OPG wants to concentrate on it’s core business of generating electricity and the NWMO has the expertise to guide the project through the regulatory review phase with the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission.
Orr says the environmental assessment work is on schedule and the report will still be submitted to the CNSC in 2011 with public hearings running in 2012.
He says the NWMO is continuing it’s public education efforts and will be have information displays at upcoming home shows in Chesley, Port Elgin, and Kincardine.
The Deep Geological Repository would be a 680 metre deep mine shaft in the bedrock that would be used to store low and medium level waste from nuclear power plants across Ontario.
Low and medium level waste does not include used reactor fuel.