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Canada

Canada is the world's largest exporter of uranium and operates nuclear reactors including on the Great Lakes. Attempts are underway to introduce nuclear power to the province of Alberta and to use nuclear reactors to power oil extraction from the tar sands.

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Entries from November 1, 2013 - November 30, 2013

Wednesday
Nov272013

CTV interviews Stop the Great Lakes Nuclear Dump on OPG DGR

Beverly Fernandez, spokesperson for Stop the Great Lakes Nuclear Dump, testifies against OPG's DGRCTV News Channel has interviewed Beverly Fernandez, spokesperson for Stop the Great Lakes Nuclear Dump, regarding Ontario Power Generation's (OPG) proposed Deep Geologic Repository on the Lake Huron shoreline. Fernandez cites a report by Dr. Duinker, hired by the Canadian federal Joint Review Panel overseeing the DGR environmental assessment, which seriously questions the quality and credibility of OPG's studies.

Tuesday
Nov262013

Radioactivity could leak from nuclear waste dump into Great Lakes, physicist/engineer admits

As re-posted by CTV, the AP has reported on resistance against Ontario Power Generation's proposed Deep Geologic Repository for radioactive waste on the shoreline of the Great Lakes.

As the article reports:

Charles Rhodes, an engineer and physicist, contended seeping groundwater would fill the chamber in as little as a year, become contaminated and eventually reach the lake through tiny cracks in the rock.

"It's only a question of how long, and how toxic it will be when it gets there," he said in an interview.