{
  "id": "nwmo-ignace",
  "slug": "nwmo-ignace",
  "name": "Canadian deep geological repository",
  "stage": "repository",
  "company_id": "nwmo",
  "country_iso3": "CAN",
  "lat": 49.417,
  "lon": -91.656,
  "capacity_value": null,
  "capacity_unit": "tHM total",
  "capacity_year": null,
  "capacity_note": "Sized for Canada's CANDU fuel inventory.",
  "output_value": null,
  "output_unit": null,
  "output_tu": null,
  "output_year": null,
  "status": "planned",
  "commissioned": null,
  "notes": "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.\n",
  "source_name": "World Nuclear Association, Storage and Disposal of Radioactive Waste",
  "source_url": "https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/nuclear-fuel-cycle/nuclear-waste/storage-and-disposal-of-radioactive-waste",
  "source_ref": null,
  "company_name": "Nuclear Waste Management Organization",
  "company_slug": "nwmo",
  "url": "https://nuclearchain.net/facilities/nwmo-ignace/",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0",
  "attribution": "NuclearChain (nuclearchain.net)"
}