NDP urges Ontario premier to put the brakes on radioactive steam generator shipment

The Ontario New Democratic Party (NDP) has urged Ontario provincial premier McGuinty to postpone any permits for shipping 16 radioactive steam generators from Bruce Nuclear Power Plant to the Port of Owen Sound -- where they would be loaded onto a boat for shipment across the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River to Sweden -- until the province has a solid "low" and "intermediate" level radioactive waste management policy. The NDP also condemned the "special arrangement" between Bruce Power and the Canadian Nuclear Safety (sic) Commission which has been approved, despite this shipment's lack of containers for the radioactive waste, as well as the amount of radioactivity aboard the single vessel, both of which are in violation of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) safety standards.