The search for a place to store Canada's used nuclear fuel has narrowed - cutting out a couple nearby communities.
A statement from the Nuclear Waste Management Organization says it has decided to continue studying the communities of Ignace in northwestern Ontario, and the Township of Huron-Kinloss and the Municipality of South Bruce, near the Bruce nuclear reactor, though one of the southern communities will be cut once NWMO locates an area for a potential repository site through an ongoing process with local landowners.
NWMO confirms this means the area around the nearby communities of Hornepayne and Manitouwadge will no longer be considered.
The agency's site selection process has been underway since 2010 - at the beginning including 22 communities across Canada, including Wawa, White River, and several other northern communities.