Beyond Nuclear posts Great Lakes radioactive waste barge shipment document for all the world to see

The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission has made its staff's analysis of the risks involving shipping 16 giant, 100 ton, intensely radioactive steam generators on the Great Lakes difficult to find online. For that reason, Beyond Nuclear has posted the document here. This report, prepared by the CNSC staff for review by the CNSC Commissioners, concludes that the shipments are very low risk. We, and a growing international coalition of environmental watchdogs, beg to differ. The shipments would originate at the Bruce nuclear power complex on the Lake Huron shore in Ontario, and be transported by barge through the Great Lakes downstream (Lake Huron, St. Clair River, Lake St. Clair, Detroit River, Lake Erie, Niagara River, Lake Ontario, St. Lawrence River), across the Atlantic Ocean, to Sweden, where they will be "recycled" into radioactive consumer products, in order to save Bruce Power Company money on radioactive waste disposal costs. A hearing before the CNSC will be held in Ottawa, Ontario on this proposal on Sept. 29th.