In January, the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission amended Chalk River Laboratories’ licence to allow it to build a near-surface disposal facility to store contaminated soil, industrial radiation sources, and radioactive demolition debris. In March, the plan was stalled after a federal court sided with First Nations who said consultation with Indigenous communities had been inadequate. And yet, over the summer, nuclear waste was secretly transported to Chalk River for disposal.

“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

  • Cyborganism@lemmy.ca
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    1 day ago

    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.