Lake Huron's shorelineLast year, Ontario Power Generation (OPG) officially cancelled its plans to build a "Deep Geologic Repository" (DGR) for 20 provincial reactors' so-called "low" and "intermediate" level radioactive wastes, less than a mile from Lake Huron (photo, left), at the Bruce Nuclear Generating Station in Kincardine. This came after a two-decade struggle, culminating with the Saugeen Ojibwe Nation's veto, an 86% to 14% tribal referendum opposed. However, the Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO), dominated by OPG, is now targeting South Bruce, Ontario, just 25 miles inland, for a national Canadian high-level rad. waste dump. Northwatch and Protect Our Waterways invited Beyond Nuclear to present on radioactive stigma impacts on property values and other economic sectors, as local resistance mounts.
Considering the long distances the irradiated nuclear fuel would travel to arrive at a DGR in South Bruce -- from east of Toronto at the Pickering and Darlington nuclear power plants in Ontario; from New Brunswick at the Point Lepreau atomic reactor; and from Quebec's Gentilly nuclear power plant -- transport risks are a significant issue, as well.
See the recording of the one and a half hour Zoom event, here.