Nuclear Waste
The Canadian issue of high-level radioactive waste storage in perpetuity. For 250,000 years this newly created post-fission material must be contained and isolated from life on earth. The mining of uranium leaves a permanent legacy of radio-isotopes in the food-chain. Saskatchewan, my home and the home of the largest Uranium company in the world, Cameco. This energy giant not only extracts uranium from the 4 corners of the earth, their ownership portfolio includes Bruce Prower, the energy company responsible for 3 million used fuel rods without permanent address. They have yet to invent containment that last for more than a few years. Now they say they want to bury it.
Highly radioactive
When NWMO salesmen comes to town... a group of northerners walk a thousand miles (Km) to rally at the government palace to declare province-wide opposition to nuclear waste storage.
In 2012, the village of Pinehouse advisory board expresses interest in a deep-geological repository to store high-level nuclear waste under their community.
Canadian Nuclear Waste
Published on May 17, 2012
Kevin Kamps of Beyond Nuclear (www.beyondnuclear.org) talks to the Peace Education Center about Ontario, Canada's plans for a deep underground dump (DUD) for nuclear waste. The conversation took place in Lansing, Michigan, on May 2, 2012 and was an offshoot of the showing of the documentary, "Into Eternity."