The Township of Ignace will be holding a youth symposium in November.

The Community Engagement Committee says it’s planning a three-day event focusing on the nuclear industry.

The Township of Ignace says about 100 students, local educators, the Nuclear Waste Management Organization and the skilled trades industry will be attending.

The Nuclear Symposium is being held in conjunction with Skills Ontario.

It will highlight future job opportunities in the field of nuclear science and technology.

Ignace mayor Kim Baigrie says it’s an excellent chance to explain how the nuclear industry will affect not only their community, but the region.

“(It) will empower our young people with knowledge, necessary trade skills, and connections that will help shape the future of used nuclear fuel in our province and our country,” states Baigrie.

“We have always maintained that the upcoming construction of the Centre of Expertise and the Deep Geological Repository are not for our generation, but those who are now in high school, our youth and those yet unborn”,

The symposium will be held November 18th to 20th at the Ignace Recreation Center.