---
title: "Nuclear Waste Management Organization"
url: "https://canadaservicemap.ca/bodies/nuclear-waste-management-organization"
description: "Nuclear Waste Management Organization is a Canadian nuclear WMO. Official website: nwmo.ca. Jurisdiction: Government of Canada. Description from Wikidata."
site: "Canada Service Map"
author: "Mahmoud Halat"
publisher: "Space & Story"
updated: "2026-10-14"
licence: "Built entirely from public data: open data and official government pages. Each record keeps the licence of its source, listed at https://canadaservicemap.ca/data."
---
# Nuclear Waste Management Organization

Government of Canada · Other federal bodies

Compiled by Mahmoud Halat, updated 14 October 2026. Not a government website. The official page always has the final word.

## About

Nuclear Waste Management Organization is a Canadian nuclear WMO. It was established in 2002.

Source: [Wikidata (structured data only: description, instance of, inception, parent organization, population)](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3487952). Licence: CC0 1.0.

## Facts

- Jurisdiction: Government of Canada
- Layer: Other federal bodies
- Class: Other
- Name in French: Société de gestion des déchets nucléaires
- Wikidata: [Q3487952](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3487952)

## Official website

- [nwmo.ca](https://www.nwmo.ca/)

## Related bodies

More bodies of the same class (Other) in the Government of Canada.

- [Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health](https://canadaservicemap.ca/bodies/canadian-agency-for-drugs-and-technologies-in-health)

## Sources

- Description source: [Wikidata (structured data only: description, instance of, inception, parent organization, population)](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3487952). Licence: CC0 1.0.
- Record from: [Statistics Canada, Public Sector Universe](https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/68-516-x/68-516-x2016001-eng.htm). Licence: Statistics Canada Open Licence.

## More

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## Cite this page

Canada Service Map, "Nuclear Waste Management Organization", updated 14 October 2026, https://canadaservicemap.ca/bodies/nuclear-waste-management-organization