Nuclear Waste

Nuclear Waste and the Common Good By Scott Harris, board member of Environment North.
Originally published in the Chronicle Journal on February 6, 2012.

The Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO) wines and dines our job-starved northern community town councils in its quest to find "a willing host" for a deep geologic nuclear high-level waste (HLW) repository. I was encouraged to learn that the township of Saugeen Shores, adjacent to the Bruce Nuclear Generating Station is showing an interest in hosting such a storage facility.
February 6, 2012
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