The latest round of public hearings in Ontario Power Generation’s quest to license a low and intermediate radioactive waste deep geologic repository in Kincardine, Ont. get underway this week. The previous set of public hearings occurred in the fall of last year, but information released by a former-OPG employee alleging miscalculations on the DGR’s waste acceptance capability along with other un-answered questions regarding potential DGR expansion plans prompted a second round of hearings. The project has proven controversial as a long list of Michigan politicians have come out against the proposed repository, mainly due to its close proximity to the Great Lakes, the world’s largest source of freshwater. The opening session
on Tuesday the 9th will cover the lessons-learned from the events at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant earlier this year in Carlsbad, N.M. Other topics that will be presented include:
- · Methodology used to determine the significance of adverse environmental effects
- · Updates to the geoscientific verification plan
- · Expansion plans for the DGR project
- · Relative risk analysis of alternative means of carrying out the project
- · Implications of revisions to the reference waste inventory
- · Applicability of recent incidents at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) to the safety case for the DGR project
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