Environmental coalition speaks out against unprecedented, risky, liquid high-level radioactive waste shipments!

February 9, 2015
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Peace Bridge between Fort Niagara, ON and Buffalo, NY is one of numerous border crossings where unprecedented liquid HLRW shipments could travel.A coalition of environmental groups has submitted comments to the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) regarding proposed truck shipments of liquid high-level radioactive waste, to travel from Chalk River, Ontario to Savannah River Site, South Carolina.

The comments were filed regarding CNSC's Technical Assessment Report: “NAC-LWT Package Design for Transport of Highly Enriched Uranyl Nitrate Liquid.”

NAC-LWT is short for Nuclear Assurance Corporation-Legal Weight Truck.

Comments were submitted by Dr. Gordon Edwards, President of the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsiblity; Beyond Nuclear; Northwatch; and many others.

The shipment of liquid high-level radioactive waste is unprecedented, extremely risky, and unnecessary in the first place.

SRS would be paid $60 million by Atomic Energy of Canada, Ltd. (AECL) to receive the liquid HLRW shipments from Chalk River. SRS hopes to keep its reprocessing capabilities on life support through such contracts. The liquid HLRW from Canada would be reprocessed at SRS.

Article originally appeared on Beyond Nuclear (https://archive.beyondnuclear.org/).