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83 MPs join opposition to nuclear garbage shipment across Great Lakes

We’re talking about nuclear garbage, and we’re going to have a highway of nuclear garbage. This shipment is going to be the first of many if we allow it to happen,”

Groups urge feds to stall ‘nuclear garbage’ shipment Eighty-three MPs sign petition Montreal Gazette, By CARMEN CHAI, Postmedia News March 9, 2011
Environmental groups are urging the government to stop a controversial plan to move 16 school-bus sized decommissioned steam generators through the Great Lakes to Sweden until what they call proper transport policies are in place.

Last month, Canada’s nuclear watchdog granted a licence to Bruce Power to transport the radiation-laced steel generators. But the president of the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility said yesterday the government should step in to stall the shipment because it could contaminate waters and because it sets a dangerous precedent…….

Groups urge feds to stall ‘nuclear garbage’ shipment

March 10, 2011 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Canada, politics, wastes