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The Final Push: The Road to 95,000 Signatures – Help Us Stop the Great Lakes Nuclear Dump

• Petition http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/stopthegreatlakesnucleardump.html

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• Ontario Power Generation plans to bury and abandon radioactive nuclear waste approximately 400 metres below the bottom level of  Lake Huron. Scientists cannot guarantee  that this Nuclear Waste Dump will not leak.
• The Great Lakes provide fresh drinking water for 40 million people in two countries.Why would we bury radioactive nuclear waste beside this precious resource?
• Ontario Power Generation did not consider ANY other sites for this nuclear waste dump  except right beside the Great Lakes. Is this responsible?
• OPG claims it has done its homework, yet the Joint Review Panel’s own consultant, Dr. Duinker, concluded that OPG’s analysis was “not credible, not defensible, not clear, not reliable, inappropriate.”
• The radioactive nuclear waste must stay isolated in this dump for 100,000 years. The Great Lakes were created by an ice age about 12,000 years ago.
• There are 3 deep geological repositories on the entire planet and all have leaked – a 100% failure rate. OPG claims their DGR will be different, but also notes they “can’t guarantee anything”.
• An underground nuclear waste dump in limestone is unproven and unprecedented.

January 13, 2016 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | ACTION