Step 1: The NWMO initiates the site selection process
Overview
Materials shared during this step are provided below.
Information package
As part of the awareness-building activities in Step 1, we created an information package. It included an overview brochure, entitled Moving Forward Together: Overview of Canada's Plan for the Long-Term Management of Used Nuclear Fuel, and a description of the Learn More Program and resources available to support learning.
Overview brochure in Indigenous languages
As part of the awareness-building activities in Step 1, we published an overview brochure, entitled Moving Forward Together: Overview of Canada's Plan for the Long-Term Management of Used Nuclear Fuel. It was translated into nine Indigenous languages.
Resources:
- Moving Forward Together: Overview of Canada's Plan for the Long-Term Management of Used Nuclear Fuel - Dene
- Moving Forward Together: Overview of Canada's Plan for the Long-Term Management of Used Nuclear Fuel - Innu
- Moving Forward Together: Overview of Canada's Plan for the Long-Term Management of Used Nuclear Fuel - Maliseet
- Moving Forward Together: Overview of Canada's Plan for the Long-Term Management of Used Nuclear Fuel - Michif
- Moving Forward Together: Overview of Canada's Plan for the Long-Term Management of Used Nuclear Fuel - Mi'kmaq
- Moving Forward Together: Overview of Canada's Plan for the Long-Term Management of Used Nuclear Fuel - Ojibway
- Moving Forward Together: Overview of Canada's Plan for the Long-Term Management of Used Nuclear Fuel - Oji-Cree
- Moving Forward Together: Overview of Canada's Plan for the Long-Term Management of Used Nuclear Fuel - Swampy Cree
- Moving Forward Together: Overview of Canada's Plan for the Long-Term Management of Used Nuclear Fuel - Woodland Cree
Materials distributed at community open house sessions
The following materials were distributed at community open house sessions.
- Who We Are
- Project Description
- Funding Canada’s Plan for the Safe, Long-Term Management of Used Nuclear Fuel
- Ensuring Safe Transportation of Used Nuclear Fuel
- Regulatory Oversight of Adaptive Phased Management
- Planning for Climate Change
- Choosing a Way Forward
- Frequently Asked Questions
- Health Effects of Radiation and Radioactivity
- Security and Safeguards
- Nature of Hazard
- Monitoring and Retrievability
- Status of National Used Fuel/High-Level Radioactive Waste Management Programs
