Joint Review Panel environmental assessment report : Environmental assessment report

The Minister of the Environment and the President of the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) established the Panel on January 24, 2012 to undertake the review of the project under the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act and the Nuclear Safety and Control Act. [...] Over half of the total radioactivity of the L&ILW would decay between the start of the project and the closure of the repository. [...] The Panel notes that a comparison of the proposed DGR in the Cobourg Formation to a hypothetical repository in granite showed that the main difference between the two was the additional risk of transporting the waste from the Bruce nuclear site to the granite site. [...] The Minister of the Environment and the President of the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) established the Joint Review Panel (The Panel) to undertake the review of the project under the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act (S. [...] The Panel Agreement outlined how the Panel would function and included the Panel Terms of Reference for the environmental assessment and the consideration of the licence application.