Canadian deep geological repository
Canadian deep geological repository is a repository facility operated by Nuclear Waste Management Organization in Canada. Its capacity is not publicly disclosed.
A site was selected in November 2024, the Township of Ignace and Wabigoon Lake Ojibway Nation in Ontario, after a voluntary, consent-based siting process that ran for fifteen years. That process, rather than the geology, is what other countries now study, because repository siting has failed politically far more often than it has succeeded.
Facility
| Stage | Geological disposal |
|---|---|
| Operator | Nuclear Waste Management Organization |
| Country | Canada |
| Capacity | not disclosed |
| Figure applies to | - |
| Note on the figure | Sized for Canada's CANDU fuel inventory. |
| Status | planned |
| Commissioned | not stated |
| Coordinates | 49.4170, -91.6560 |
Position in the chain
No disclosed capacity, so its share of world repository capacity cannot be stated.
Other repository facilities
| Facility | Capacity | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Wolsong LILW Disposal Center, Gyeongju | 800,000drums | operating |
| Konrad | 303,000m³ | construction |
| Yucca Mountain | 70,000tHM total | closed |
| Asse II | 47,000m³ | closed |
| Morsleben (ERAM) | 37,000m³ | closed |
| Onkalo | not disclosed | construction |
| Forsmark spent fuel repository (KBS-3) | not disclosed | construction |
| Cigéo | not disclosed | planned |
| Nördlich Lägern | not disclosed | planned |
| Waste Isolation Pilot Plant | not disclosed | operating |
| SFR, Forsmark | not disclosed | operating |
| Olkiluoto VLJ repository | not disclosed | operating |
| Loviisa VLJ repository | not disclosed | operating |
| Centre de l'Aube (CSA) | not disclosed | operating |
| El Cabril | not disclosed | operating |
| Low Level Waste Repository, Drigg | not disclosed | operating |
| Rokkasho LLW Disposal Center | not disclosed | operating |
| Bátaapáti National Radioactive Waste Repository | not disclosed | operating |
| Yeniseisky underground research laboratory, Krasnoyarsk | not disclosed | construction |
| Beishan underground research laboratory | not disclosed | construction |
Sources
- World Nuclear Association, Storage and Disposal of Radioactive Waste · retrieved 2026-09-06
How these sources are used, including the corrections applied on top of them and what is deliberately left blank · download the underlying data