Help stop radioactive steam generator shipment on the Great Lakes!

The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) has requested additional public comments on the proposal by Bruce Nuclear Power Plant in Ontario (the largest nuclear power plant in the Western Hemisphere, and among the largest in the world, with 8 operable reactors, and 1 permanently shut down reactor) to ship 16 radioactive steam generators on a boat via the Great Lakes to Sweden for "recycling," potentially into consumer products. The shipment would traverse Lake Huron, the St. Clair River, Lake St. Clair, the Detroit River, Lake Erie, the Welland Canal, Lake Ontario, the St. Lawrence River, and the Atlantic Ocean. The shipment's radioactivity -- mostly ultra-hazardous plutonium -- presents an unacceptable risk to the Great Lakes, 20% of the planet's surface fresh water, and drinking water supply for 40 million people in the U.S., Canada, and a large number of Native American First Nations. Please help put the brakes on this risky shipment by emailing the CNSC at Interventions@cnsc-ccsn.gc.ca, urging that a full panel review be undertaken on the proposal, the highest level environmental assessment option under the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act. Likewise, email the U.S. Department of Transportation's Pipelines and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) at phmsa.administrator@dot.gov, urging that the agency undertake a full Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) before permitting the shipment to enter U.S. territory on the Great Lakes and connecting rivers. PHMSA has been hauled before the U.S. House of Representatives Transportation and Infrastructure Committee in recent months to be grilled on its involvement in disastrous oil pipeline spills into Michigan and Illinois rivers, deadly natural gas pipeline explosions, and its cozy ties to the very companies it is supposed to regulate. For more background information on the proposed shipment, see http://www.beyondnuclear.org/canada/.