Responses to questions raised from Peer Review of Canada’s Fifth National Report for the Joint Convention on the Safety of Spent Fuel Management and on the Safety of Radioactive Waste Management

The objective is to ensure that the program is commensurate with the public’s perception of risk and that timely information associated with the lifecycle of the project is communicated. [...] During the pre-licensing phase, the CNSC expects the NWMO to adhere to the spirit of RD/GD-99.3, Public Information and Disclosure by proactively engaging all of the communities of interest. [...] In accordance with licence requirements for OPG’s WMMF, the licensee must ensure, in order to protect the health of the public and the environment, that the regulatory dose limit of 1 mSv/year for members of the public is not exceeded. [...] Ontario Power radioactive waste scheduled the additional two weeks of Generation (page 3) -. Could you hearings in September 2014 to give public participants provide reasons that determined the opportunity to provide their views on the subjects of the organization of additional 2 the additional information requests issued by the JRP weeks of public hearing days on the after the last day of the hea [...] As the JRP is responsible for obtaining all the information they consider necessary to assess the environmental effects of the DGR project and the licence application under the Nuclear Safety and Control Act (NSCA), it was for the JRP to determine what information was needed.