Canada's nuclear industry has a problem. And, by extension, so do all Canadians.

Sitting in seven locations across Eastern and Central Canada are more than two million fire-log-sized used nuclear fuel-rod bundles. That's enough to fill six hockey rinks up to the top of the boards.

Even though the bundles are used, they are still radioactive — dangerously, fatally so. And they are going to be that way for the next few hundred thousand years.
Canada is currently attempting to find a location to store spent nuclear fuel bundles like this one, which will remain radioactive for more than 200,000 years. (EDRAM.info)
If you want to put that in perspective, think about Homo sapiens. Humans have only existed in our present form for about the last 200,000 years. Most of that time was spent running around hunting other animals and gathering nuts and plants in an effort to keep from starving.

Nuclear power is brand new by comparison — about 70 years old. And yet, the detritus of our quest for electricity with the help of broken atoms will be with us, in our terms, forever.

So what do you do with more than two million bundles of used nuclear fuel that once powered the country's Candu reactors?

Canada has a plan.

Bury it — deep
Under the deep geological repository plan, spent nuclear fuel bundles would be encased in copper containers, then embedded in holes bored into rock 500 metres below ground. (Nuclear Waste Management Organization)
In 2002, the federal government passed the Nuclear Fuel Waste Act. The law mandated that Canada's nuclear energy companies — Ontario Power Generation, New Brunswick Power and Hydro-Québec — create something called the Nuclear Waste Management Organization.