Yes, Canada currently lacks a national radioactive waste inventory with consistent classification standards that have data on individual radionuclides. We are not fulfilling our reporting obligations under the Joint Convention on the Safety of Spent Fuel Management and on the Safety of Radioactive Waste Management.
We just don't have a good enough inventory to make long-term plans for radioactive waste disposal. We need an independent agency that can develop such a proper inventory. We don't want to see this reclassification of intermediate-level waste as low-level waste, which is, unfortunately, what's been happening at Chalk River.