How much high-level radioactive waste is currently stored on the Great Lakes shoreline?
Well over 50,000 tons on the Canada side, and nearly 14,000 tons on the U.S. side (not even counting the high-level radioactive waste glass logs at the long-shuttered West Valley, NY reprocessing facility). Kevin Kamps calculated these figures -- including breakdowns for how much is at each nuclear power plant on the U.S. side -- for use at the May 14, 2011 International Roundtable on Great Lakes Nuclear Issues in Dearborn, Michigan -- see his powerpoint entry below. Of course, this mountain of radioactive waste stored on the Great Lakes shoreline -- with nowhere to go -- will continue to grow, and significantly higher -- the longer atomic reactors continue to operate. Given the unacceptable risks, they need to be abolished, replaced with renewables and efficiency, and the generation of high-level radioactive waste stopped.