The Nuclear Waste Management Organization has paid for trips by groups from Wabigoon Lake First Nation and South Bruce.
IGNACE - Representatives of the Ignace area will fly to Finland this fall to tour the world's first underground used nuclear fuel storage facility.
It's located 400 to 430 metres underground on the Gulf of Bothnia about a three-hour drive northwest of Helsinki, and is expected to go into operation next year. Jake Pastore of Summit PCG said about six people from the township itself will likely participate, including council members and some municipal staff.
"They're far enough along that you can actually go down into the repository and take a look at some of the huge tunnels. They are large enough that they have dump trucks driving through them. I think it just helps give people a better understanding of the scale of this project, and counteracts a lot of the information out there, that this is like a 'dump and abandonment' kind of issue.
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