www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/on...le14300723/?page=all
On a clear day, Marti McFadzean can see the Bruce nuclear plant from her home in this cottage town on the sandy shores of Lake Huron, where she had summered since childhood and has now retired.
Ms. McFadzean was never too concerned about the proximity of a nuclear plant to her family’s tranquil summer retreat, where five generations have gathered since 1928. But this summer, the former school administrator interrupted her retirement to become a full-time NIMBY activist.
She and many of her neighbours along Lake Huron’s eastern shore are campaigning against a $1-billion plan by Ontario Power Generation (OPG) to bury low- and intermediate-level nuclear waste in a deep geologic repository (DGR) at the Bruce site, a facility that would be built just two kilometres from her home and only a kilometre from the lake itself.
For nuclear power producers, the Bruce DGR represents part of a long-term answer to a thorny problem that has dogged the industry since its postwar inception: what to do with the radioactive waste that will remain dangerous long after the reactors are gone, in some cases for hundreds of thousands of years.
Britain has already fully committed its future energy policy to nuclear power, all the three main parties totally back the so-called Energy White Paper:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-24100833
Climate Change Secretary Ed Davey earlier warned the Party not backing nuclear would be "reckless".
He said he had changed his mind because of climate change.
Hey, as long as there's no fucking climate change - not that this will make any difference at all - who cares about nuclear waste?
