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Nuclear Waste Management Organization

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Tel:  506-458-9444
Fax:  506-458-2850

Rick Perley
Acting Natural Resources Liaison       

Kingsclear PowWow 2021. Selena McDougall, Rick Perley, Tyona Bear (Student) and Samantha Ratti (Instuctor)

 St. Mary's (Sitansisk) PowWow 2019 Display booth

Nuclear Waste Management Organization Update

Transportation Planning Framework

Preliminary Transportation Plan

Implementing Adaptive Phased Management 2022-2026

Invitation to review a draft planning framework for the transportation of used nuclear fuel

NWMO’s draft transportation planning framework document

Article: Communities Come Together to Learn July 2019 Oakville, ON

What We Heard: December 2019

Council of Elders & Youth

Small Modular Reactors - Managing Used Fuel

Nuclear Fuel Cycle in Canada

Pamphlet page 1. Information disseminated at Indian Summer Games 2018 

Pamphlet page 2: Information disseminated at Indian Summer Games 2018

NB Indian Summer Games 2018, Esgenoopetitj

NWMO Council of Elders and Youth

Mission

-To provide advice to the NWMO that will help protect and preserve all creation: air, land, fire, water, plants, medicines, animals and humankind

– Guided by seven universal teachings of love, trust, sharing, honesty, humanity, respect and wisdom.

Those representing New Brunswick are Elder Donna Augustine (Rexton, NB) and Youth Madison Levi (Metepenagiag Mi’kmaq Nation, NB).

Mandate

The Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO) was established in 2002 by Canada's nuclear electricity producers in accordance with the Nuclear Fuel Waste Act (NFWA). Operating on a not-for-profit basis under the Canada Not-for-profit Corporations Act, the NWMO is responsible for designing and implementing Canada's plan for the long-term management of used nuclear fuel. Used nuclear fuel is created by generating electricity in nuclear power plants.

Ontario Power Generation (OPG), New Brunswick Power Corporation, and Hydro-Québec (HQ) are the founding Members of the NWMO, and along with Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL), are required to fund the NWMO's Operations.

The NFWA required the NWMO to study approaches for the long-term management of used nuclear fuel and recommend to the Government of Canada a preferred approach. The NWMO initiated this study in 2002, and in 2005, after a three-year dialogue with Canadians from coast to Coast, submitted to the Minister of Natural Resources a proposed approach for the long-term management of Canada's used nuclear fuel.

In June 2007, the Government of Canada selected Adaptive Phased Management (APM) as Canada's plan for the long-term management of USed nuclear fuel.

The technical end point of APM is the centralized containment and isolation of the used fuel in a deep geological repository located at a safe site with an informed and willing host. The plan also involves the development of a used fuel transportation system to transport used nuclear fuel to the repository site.

The management system involves realistic, manageable phases, each marked by explicit decision points with continuing participation by interested Canadians.

Links...

Indigenous Knowledge Policy

NWMO News and Activities

Radiation - Effects and Sources

NWMO Watching Brief on Advanced Fuel Cycles

Hosting a Nuclear Underground Storage Facility: Generations of Opportunity presented to a UNB class (ADM 2166) on Persuasive Economic Opportunities by Rick Perley

UNBI NWMO Workshop August 2005 Metepenagiag Lodge

Plant Database.wmv

Level 1 Watersheds

"At-risk" Watersheds (at least <40% Crown forest cover <35 years old)  NB’s watersheds at risk. Megan de Graaf, NB Media Co-op, April 16, 2008.

1. Wild Goose Branch
2. Napadogan Brook
3. Big Forks Stream
4. Grey Brook Composite
5. Coal Creek
6. Forks Stream
7. Alward Brook Composite

"At-risk" Watersheds (at least <40% Crown forest cover <35 years old) NB’s watersheds at risk. Megan de Graaf, NB Media Co-op, April 16, 2008

1. Tomogonops River
2. North Branch Big Sevogle River
3. South Branch Big Sevogle River Headwaters
4. Lower North Branch Little Southwest Miramichi River
5. Little North Pole Brook Composite
6. North Pole Stream
7. Burnt Land Brook
8. Six Mile Brook

"At-risk" Watersheds (at least 40% Crown forest cover <35 years old.  NB’s watersheds at risk. Megan de Graaf, NB Media Co-op, April 16, 2008.

1. South Branch Kedgwick River
2. West of States Brook Composite
3. States Brook
4. McDougall Brook
5. Patapedia River

Bathurst Harbour Forty Four Mile Brook Forty Mile Brook Little South Branch Nepisiguit River Moody Brook Composite Nepisiguit River Headwaters Otter Brook Composite Pabineau River Composite Portage Brook Composite South Branch Nepisiguit River

"At-risk" Watersheds (at least 40% Crown forest cover <35 years old) NB’s watersheds at risk. Megan de Graaf, NB Media Co-op, April 16, 2008..

1. Middle River Headwaters
2. Little River
3. Forty Four Mile Brook
4. Forty Mile Brook
5. Nine Mile Brook
6. Nepisguit Brook Composite
7. Otter Brook Composite
8. South Branch Nepisiguit River (62% land covered in forest <35 years old)
   **MOST CRITICALLY AFFECTED WATERSHED
9. Little South Branch Nepisiguit River

"At-risk" Watersheds (at least 40% Crown forest cover <35 years old) NB’s watersheds at risk. Megan de Graaf, NB Media Co-op, April 16, 2008..

1. Middle River Headwaters
2. Little River

The South Branch Nepisiguit River, with 62% of the land base covered in Crown forest less than 35 years old, is the most critically affected watershed in the province.