Canada’s nuclear industry is engaged in a multi-year process to secure a burial location for all of Canada’s high level radioactive waste.
After a decade of investigation, the Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO) has now shortlisted two candidate sites, one in each of northwestern and southwestern Ontario. Claiming throughout this process that their search is for an “informed and willing host”, the NWMO has still not defined how “willingness” will be measured, or who makes up the community that can grant consent.
This webinar, originally aired on July 28th, explores questions around consent and willingness in the context of the very long term challenge of nuclear waste. Who decides? And who decides who the decision-makers are? The presentation slides and online recording are available here.