Issues
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Deep Geological Repository
A nuclear threat to the Great Lakes and surrounding Canadian-USEcosystem
Sign the petition against the dumping:
6-09-2008
Progress Michigan launched an online petition against a proposed nuclear dump 1/2 mile from Lake Huron in Canada and a massive oil refinery in Sarnia. Friday's Detroit Free Press broke the story.
The nuclear dump will take waste from 20 Canadian reactors and have to store it and isolate it from the environment for hundreds of years. Lake Huron is a drinking water source for millions of people in Michigan.
Kay Cumbow, with Citizens for Alternatives to Chemical Contamination has been leading the charge against this proposal. The petition will grow the list of supporters standing with her and others against these risky projects.
You can sign the petition at: www.greatlakesnotadump.com
Meetings
Upcoming Meetings on Draft Guidelines and Draft Joint Review Panel Documents for Proposed Reactors and Deep Geological Repository for Radioactive Waste - Proposed for construction at Kincardine, Ontario, less than a mile from Lake Huron
Citizens for Alternatives to Chemical Contamination will hold two local workshops on the proposed nuclear waste dump in Ontario:
Wednesday, June 11, at 7:45 pm at 1227 10th Ave, Port Huron, in the upstairs auditorium at Dungan Chiropractic Wellness Center.
Monday June 16th at 7pm at the Clean Water Action Office 38875 Harper Ave., Clinton Township
Admission is free. Registration is encouraged, but not required. To register, or for more information on these meetings or the meetings in Ontario, contact Kay Cumbow, Citizens for Alternatives to Chemical Contamination, kcumbow@greatlakes.net or 810-346-4513.
- The meetings by Northwatch are in Ontario and include information on both the proposed reactors and the proposed deep underground dump.)
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Northwatch is inviting you to join us for an information sharing and strategy session about nuclear expansions at the Bruce Nuclear Generating Station - [This includes the proposed deep geological repository. http://www.web.ca/~nwatch/
Northwatch
Box 282, North Bay P1B 8H2
tel 705 497 0373 fax 476 7060
Bruce Nuclear, Ontario, Canada, on Lake Huron.
The site of the proposed deep geological repository of nuclear waste.
Already testing is being done to see if the cold lower layers of water in Lake Huron will contain a nuclear waste spill and radiation, or if any chemical can be dumped into the lake to contain a spill.
Students are being used to do some of the research.
Is it ethical to use students to work on a potentially environmental holocaust project?
Is it ethical to pursue such a project when there is such a great risk involved?
Nuclear Power Plant meeting:
If you have one, be sure and wear your radiation suit.......
Documents are available at libraries in Port Elgin, Kincardine, Tiverton, Southampton, Walkerton, Paisley, Hanover and Owen Sound as well as the band offices of the Saugeen First Nation in RR1 Southampton and the Chippewas of Nawash First Nation in RR5 Wiarton. The documents, which will form the basis of Bruce Power’s final New Build EA, will also be posted electronically at www.brucepower.com later this week.
Bruce Power will hold a series of Open Houses 2009~
These open houses are regarding the proposed deep underground nuclear dump for much of the so-called "low" and "intermediate" level radioactive wastes for 20 Ontario reactors, that would be positioned far under a spit that sticks out into Lake Huron, and would only be monitored for 300 years by the Canadian government. It is acknowledged that water will likely eventually seep into the site. There are many radionuclides that will be put into this proposed dump that have half-lives MUCH greater than 300 years, including isotopes of plutonium. These wastes are currently kept in storage onsite, adjacent the land that the Bruce reactors are on.
The Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO) has a mandate from the Canadian government to find a permanent storage place for irradiated fuel ("high level" waste) for all of Canada's nuclear reactors. OPG's (Ontario Power Generation's) proposed deep underground radioactive dump adjacent the Bruce nuclear reactors by Kincardine, Ontario, reportedly would NOT contain irradiated fuel. Many observers remain skeptical, however -especially with the NWMO now working side by side with OPG on this proposal.
Every community that borders Lake Huron or obtains drinking water from or downstream of Lake Huron - has an interest in this proposed project as well as the current 8-reactor Bruce generating station and current OPG radioactive dumpsite. A serious accident or incident at this site could well affect Lake Huron and waters downstream far into the future. -
November 2 – Kincardine, Kincardine Davidson Centre
November 3 – Ripley, Ripley Huron Community Centre
November 4 – Walkerton, Victoria Jubilee Hall
November 5 – Port Elgin, Colonial Motel
November 9 – Chesley, Chesley Fire Hall
November 10 – Owen Sound, Bayshore Community Centre
November 12 – Wiarton, Wiarton & District Community Centre
Bruce Power filed a site license application for new build with the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission in August, 2006 and began its formal EA in January, 2007, when the commission accepted the company’s Project Description.
For further information, please contact:
Steve Cannon 519-361-6559 Steve.cannon@brucepower.com
24-hour Duty Media Officer 519-361-6161
The proposed deep underground dump is unprecedented,and is for all radioactive wastes from 20 Ontario reactors except irradiated fuel. It would be a permanent dump, with radioisotopes needing isolation from the biosphere for at least one million years - yet the institutional controls would only be for 300 years. The stated end intent is to abandon the site and it is acknowledged that the dump at some point will fill in with (salt) water.
This is a critical time as comments are due June 18th on draft guidelines and joint panel review documents that will determine nature, scope and extent of the information that must be addressed in the preparation of the Environmental Impact Statement as well as rules for determining the makeup of the panel. These comments are crucial to the future health of the Great Lakes Basin.
Citizens for Alternatives to Chemical Contamination and others will be posting sample comment letters closer to the date (sometime next week). These are not comments on the proposed dump (or the proposed reactors). These are comments on how the panel is chosen, as well as the nature, scope and extent of the information that must be addressed in the EIS. These comments will determine what people can comment on after the EIS is released and what kind of testimony can be brought before the panel. For example, this is an opportunity to widen the scope of the EIS: currently, the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission accepts that the only communities that could be possibly affected by an incident or accident at this proposed deep underground dump are local fisheries and local communities close to Kincardine, Ontario. The shaft and access to this site is less than a mile from Lake Huron.
Here are the government sites:
For more information about these draft documents and to learn how to provide your comments, please visit www.ceaa-acee.gc.ca, CNSC Web site's Bruce Power Project, DGR Project.
If you need more information, contact the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency by phone at 1-866-582-1884 or by email at Bruce.Review@ceaa-acee.gc.ca (Bruce Power Project) and DGR.Review@ceaa-acee.gc.ca (DGR Project).
For background documents on the proposed dump, see Ontario Power Generation's website: http://www.opg.com/power/nuclear/index.asp and click on "Nuclear Waste
Management" . Once there, click on "the DGR".
Folks wanting more information are welcome to contact Kay Cumbow at kcumbow@greatlakes.net or 810-346-4513.
This technical information session regarding three proposed nuclear power plant technologies proposed for the Bruce Newbuild (4 potential new nuclear reactors at the Bruce site on Lake Huron) will be webcast live from Ottawa on the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission website http://www.nuclearsafety.gc.ca/ on May 7th and will be archived on the Canadian Environmental Assessment Registry under reference number 07-05-25738.
I believe this is to help make a decision on the reactor design - three designs have been submitted. It is rather incomprehensible that EIS comments are due
May 4th, 2009, before a reactor design is chosen. How can the public make adequate comment on a reactor project, with no chosen reactor? The reactor is the heart of any reactor project! ........Comments from Kay
Canadian Environmental Assessment Registry
Bruce Power New Nuclear Power Plant Project
Joint Review Panel for the proposed Bruce Power New Nuclear Power Plant Project
http://www.ceaa.gc.ca/050/document-eng.cfm?documentID=33363
Public Notice
Technical Information Session on Nuclear Power Plant Technologies
The Joint Review Panel for the proposed Bruce Power New Nuclear Power Plant Project invites the public to attend a technical information session regarding three proposed nuclear power plant technologies.
The objective of the half-day session is to provide information on these technologies in order to allow the panel to acquire an understanding of the principal features of the designs and their layouts, the key plant operational parameters, the overall normal operation, the approaches to the control and mitigation of potential accidents, and the key similarities and differences.
Date: Thursday, May 7, 2009
Location: Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) - Public Hearing Room
14th floor, 280 Slater Street, Ottawa, Ontario
Time: 12:30 p.m.
The information session will be webcasted live via the CNSC Web site and will be archived on the Canadian Environmental Assessment Registry under reference number 07-05-25738.
The Bruce Power New Nuclear Power Plant Project is a proposal for the site preparation, and the construction, operation, decommissioning and abandonment of up to four new nuclear reactors at the existing Bruce Nuclear Site, located on the eastern shore of Lake Huron, north of Kincardine. The project is expected to generate approximately 4000 megawatts of electricity to the Ontario grid.
This technical information session is being held during the comment period on the project’s Environmental Impact Statement and Application for a Licence to Prepare a Site. For more information on the project please visit www.ceaa-acee.gc.ca or www.nuclearsafety.gc.ca, or contact the Project Co-Manager at the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency by phone at 1-866-582-1884 or by email at Bruce.Review@ceaa-acee.gc.ca or the Project Co-Manager at the CNSC at 1-613-947-3710 or by email at JRP-Bruce-CEC@cnsc-ccsn.gc.ca.
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