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Canada – Underground Nuclear Storage Needs 250 Acres

Mahrez Ben Belfadhel, Director of APM Geoscience, said the site will have to be safe for hundreds of thousands of years. Even through another ice age over North America.

July 3rd, 2013 5:25am

Written by Ken Kilpatrick

Officials in Huron-Kinloss got a look at the immense scope of a proposed underground nuclear waste site.

The Huron-Kinloss Nuclear Waste Community Advisory Committee, meeting for the first time last night, was told the project will need an investment of from $16 to $24 billion dollars.
It would require a dedicated surface area of 250 acres and a subsurface area of 2.5 kilometres times 1.5 kilometres or 930 acres.
The project would be sustainable for more than 100 years. A number of staff from the Nuclear Waste Management Organization spoke at the meeting. Mahrez Ben Belfadhel, Director of APM Geoscience, said the site will have to be safe for hundreds of thousands of years. Even through another ice age over North America.

Experts say the site will be used for roughly 30 years to store nuclear waste. Huron-Kinloss, along with 28 other communities across Canada, is going through stages in the process leading up to a final choice for the site, A number of private citizens along with Mayor Mitch Twolan and Deputy-Mayor Wilf Gamble, are on the committee.

Member Rob Thompson lobbed a number of hardballs at the nuclear group. He asked what Huron-Kinloss was getting out of the process. Will there be a cheque to entice the community, Thompson asked.
It’s kind of like going for a Sunday drive, he said.

You know where you’re going but you don’t know where you are going. Later, when asked to expand on his thoughts, Thompson said he couldn’t talk because the committee had decided that the mayor would speak for everyone.

Mayor Mitch Twolan said the experience of being in a project such as this was new for everyone.

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