Rolling stewardship for radioactive waste, instead of Great Lakes shoreline dumping

As reported by the Toronto Star, the demand by an environmental coalition, including Beyond Nuclear, for full disclosure on whether or not decommissioning wastes and even irradiated nuclear fuel would be buried at Ontario Power Generation's proposed Deep Geologic Repository at the Bruce Nuclear Station on the Lake Huron shore has been rejected by the Canadian federal Joint Review Panel overseeing the environmental assessment proceeding.

Dr. Gordon Edwards, President of the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility, has described abandonment of radioactive wastes on the Great Lakes shore as "criminal negligence," and instead calls for inter-generational "rolling stewardship" over the long-lasting hazardous substances.

The Stop the Great Lakes Nuclear Dump petition now has nearly 37,000 signatures. If you haven't already signed it, please do, and spread the word to everyone you know.

In addition, one of Canada's biggest municipalities -- the City of Mississisauga, with 700,000 residents, just west of Toronto, on the Lake Ontario shore -- has passed a resolution opposing the DUD. It joins a growing list of cities across the Great Lakes that have done similarly.