The Technical Workshops:
Please note, there are a number of projects for long-term management of some of the radioactive waste under way in different parts of Canada. For example, the NWMO is implementing Canada's plan for the safe, long-term care of used nuclear fuel, known as Adaptive Phased Management (APM). Another example is the Canadian Nuclear Laboratories’ Port Hope Area Initiative (PHAI) for the cleanup and local, long-term, safe management of historic low-level radioactive waste in the municipalities of Port Hope and Clarington. Those projects, as well as the future of the energy policy in Canada are not the topic of these Technical Workshops.
The discussions for this series of events will focus on radioactive waste for which no long-term plan currently exists, specifically some low- and all of the intermediate-level waste. Learn more about APM [3] and opportunities or engagement in that process. Find out more about the PHAI [4].
Information will be provided during the event. However, if you want to learn more before attending a Technical Workshop, here are some helpful resources:
If you have questions about the Technical Workshops, please contact us [9].
There will be a technical workshop focused on low-level waste and one on intermediate-level waste. We are making every effort to ensure our technical workshops are accessible to as many Canadians and Indigenous peoples who are interested in participating in the sessions. To ensure that we’re hearing from as many voices as possible, we invite you to register for one event for each topic of interest that works best for you based on your availability.
If you cannot attend, contact us to cancel your attendance [9].
No. We will not be recording the sessions, but there will be a notetaker and a summary of all the workshops will be posted on the website.
Sessions will be held on Zoom. You can join the sessions from a browser or Zoom app on your phone or computer. For the best experience, we recommend you join with a computer enabled with a camera and microphone, so that you can participate in the breakout sessions if you want to share your perspective.
No. However, for the best experience, we recommend you join with a computer enabled with a camera and microphone, so that you can participate fully in the breakout sessions and share your perspective.
We want to ensure all participants feel comfortable participating and sharing their perspectives. When registering, participants agree to abide by our Community Guidelines [10]. We will have professional moderators who will ensure the dialogue remains civil, and can take action as appropriate. Although we will have notetakers, the sessions are not recorded, and there will not be attribution to individuals making comments, unless they ask to have their comment ‘on the record.’
Yes. We will produce a summary What We Heard report over the summer, after the technical workshops and roundtable sessions are completed.
The insights we obtain from technical workshops and roundtable sessions will be used as inputs to the development of the Integrated Strategy on Radioactive Waste. Other inputs include public attitude research, insights from the Canadian Radioactive Waste Summit held in March 2021, insights from our Indigenous engagement activities, any written input we receive, as well as insights from community engagement sessions.
Yes. These will be posted in advance of the technical workshops.
Links
[1] https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https%3A//radwasteplanning.ca/content/technical-workshops
[2] https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?status=Technical%20Workshops%20-%20https%3A//radwasteplanning.ca/content/technical-workshops
[3] https://www.nwmo.ca/en/Canadas-Plan/About-Adaptive-Phased-Management-APM
[4] https://www.phai.ca/en/home/default.aspx
[5] https://radwasteplanning.ca/node/228
[6] http://radwasteplanning.ca/sites/default/files/lilw_white_paper_final.pdf
[7] https://radwasteplanning.ca/sites/default/files/project_report.pdf
[8] https://radwasteplanning.ca/sites/default/files/isrw_report_on_technical_options_layperson_summary_en.pdf
[9] https://radwasteplanning.ca/node/222
[10] https://radwasteplanning.ca/content/nwmo-community-guidelines