Ontario Towns Mull Approval for Nuclear Fuel Facilities—Here’s How Waste Storage Works

Published on July 17, 2024

Electricity generated from nuclear power may be efficient, but the byproduct of that process—nuclear fuel—is a problem the Canadian government has yet to solve. After more than five decades of nuclear power reactors in Ontario, Quebec, and New Brunswick producing this fuel, the country has more than 3.3 million used nuclear fuel bundles to deal with, but no permanent solution for long-term nuclear waste storage. “If stacked like cordwood, all this used nuclear fuel could fit into about nine NHL hockey rinks from the ice surface to the top of the boards,” the Nuclear Waste Management Organization  (NWMO) says on its website. “At the end of the planned operation of Canada’s existing nuclear reactors, the number of used fuel bundles could total about 5.6 million.”...

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