Groups call on safety regulator to reject radioactive shipment

[CHIMO]

Source: thestar.com

An international coalition of environmental groups and community leaders will make its final pleas to Canada’s nuclear safety regulator Monday in a last-ditch attempt to stop a controversial plan to ship radiation-laced steel through the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence Seaway.

The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission is deciding whether to grant Bruce Power Inc. a licence to transport 16 decommissioned steam generators weighing 1,760 tonnes by ship from the shores of Georgian Bay, through Lakes Huron, Erie and Ontario and along the St. Lawrence River to Sweden, where they are to be recycled.

It would be the first time a licence has been issued by the commission to ship nuclear waste through the Great Lakes.

Monday marks the beginning of the commission’s final deliberations following two days of public hearings — called to satisfy a swelling public outrage — in Ottawa in September.



Read more: http://www.thestar.com/news/article/894544--groups-call-on-safety-regulator-to-reject-radioactive-shipment?bn=1

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[Demeter]

1. First I've Heard of It

but Michigan doesn't have a daily paper anymore....