“We remind you, Mr. Minister, that the site used in Chalk River is located very close to the source of drinking water for millions of Quebecers,” the three MPs write. “This is probably one of the worst possible and imaginable places to decide to store nuclear waste.”
licence this past January to allow it to build a near surface disposal facility to store contaminated soil, industrial radiation sources, and radioactive demolition debris in a 25-metre-high stack of lined and covered disposal cells.
In March, the plan was stalled after a federal court
And yet, over the summer the Canadian National Energy Alliance—a consortium of multinational corporations (…) secretly transported high-level radioactive waste (…) to the Chalk River site
Maybe he should suggest a place in Quebec to store it then?
I don’t care, as long as it’s safe to do so and won’t affect important sources of water.
The problem is that Québec has a LOT of sources of drinkable water.
The problem with nuclear waste is that absolutely no one wants it. Chalk River, with its long history with the nuclear industry, is one of the places least likely to be subject to local protests, but it seems that even that wasn’t good enough.
Short of locking all interested parties in a room together and telling them they can’t leave until they select a disposal site for the waste (which already exists and has to end up somewhere) and sign documents stating they won’t interfere with the use of the site, I’m at a loss regarding what to do.
