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Jonathon Naylor Editor For many citizens, Creighton's potential pursuit of a nuclear waste storage facility has spawned more questions than answers. Which is why Canada's Nuclear Waste Management Organiz-ation is reaching out to residents with an interactive advertising feature. 'Ask the NWMO', which begins appearing in The Reminder this Friday, will allow people to pose questions directly to NWMO staff. Questioners will remain anonymous, and every two weeks an ad will appear to answer one or two of the queries. 'Ask whatever is on your mind _ there is no such thing as a bad question,' reads the ad. The ads will appear in newspapers covering all 10 Canadian communities that have shown interest in potentially hosting an underground repository to store the nation's spent nuclear fuel rods. Besides Creighton, that list includes English River and Pinehouse in Saskatchewan, six communities in northern Ontario and one community, Brockton, in southern Ontario. The NWMO expects the repository to open in 2035, but it will be another six to nine years before a host community is chosen. Premier Brad Wall has said he does not think Saskatchewanians want radioactive waste kept in their province and that unless there is a major shift in public opinion, it is not in the cards. But that has not stopped Creighton and the two other Saskatchewan communities, as the provincial government has not issued any formal decree on the matter.
