By Carl Clutchey, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, The Chronicle-Journal Those who remain troubled by the prospect of spent radioactive nuclear-fuel rods being trucked or railed through Northwestern towns and villages may take some solace in the projected timeline: it’s not going to be happening anytime soon. Though community support for a deep underground storage site to be built just west of Ignace was obtained late last year, approval for the project is a decade away, the project’s proponent says. “The next step is the 10-year regulatory decision-making process,” a regional Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO) spokesman said last week in an email. “This rigorous process will ensure that the (Nuclear Waste Management Organization’s) understanding of the safety of the repository is independently confirmed, by both the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission,…
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