Deep Geological Repository (DGR) for Canada's Used Nuclear Fuel Project
Against the Nuclear Waste Management Project in Northwestern Ontario
Reference Number
95
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High-level radioactive waste is highly toxic and dangerous. Accidental exposure can cause gene mutations, cancer and other irreparable health consequences to humans, and have long-lasting harmful effects on biodiversity and ecosystem health.
Please respect the First Nations and their waterways and river systems. The First Nation have a right to a clean and toxic-free environment.
Please consider the species that call Northwestern Ontario home. If toxic waste leaks into waterways and land, it will poison the animals, birds, insects and fish, and eventually humans. It has happened before, and there is no 100% guarantee that it will not happen again. Not worth the risk!
The project relies on transporting high-level radioactive waste over hundreds of kilometres from nuclear reactors in Ontario, Quebec, Manitoba, and New Brunswick daily for up to 50 years.
The transportation of high-level radioactive waste poses an increasingly high risk to the public if an accident were to occur during transit.
The project will require the transport of approximately 5.9 million used nuclear fuel bundles over thousands of kilometres to an underground waste repository, with construction beginning as early as 2030.
I do not want Nuclear Waste to be dumped in Northern Ontario. It is 2026; there must be a better way. If not, then perhaps Nuclear Energy should be abandoned. It is not worth the risk.
How would the residents of the city of Toronto react if the decision were made to dump radioactive waste in the Greater Toronto Area? Why is it then permissible to dump in Northwestern Ontario?
Submitted by
Angela Grella
Phase
Planning
Public Notice
Public Notice - Comments invited on the summary of the Initial Project Description and funding available
