Creighton doesn’t make cut for nuclear waste storage facility
An eastern Saskatchewan community has recently failed tests to become a possible candidate to safely store nuclear waste.
Following an in-depth geoscience evaluation from the Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO), the results found that only one site outside of the Town of Creighton could be used to safely and properly store nuclear waste, but could not be used due to geological protrusions.
“The area just outside of Creighton, which they were looking at, they did aerial surveys and a geological study on it,” said Creighton Mayor Bruce Fidler. “It showed a number of fractures in the rock that make it unstable and unsafe for the amount of area that they’re looking for.”
“Safety being the number on issue, so unfortunately they had to remove us from the list.”