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Helen Caldicott warns about the still-present nuclear danger SCOTT HARRIS / scott@vueweekly.com For more than 35 years, Dr Helen Caldicott has been an outspoken critic of the follies of the nuclear age, dedicating her life to shining a spotlight on the risks posed to human health and the environment by both nuclear weapons and the widespread use of nuclear power.
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Thanks to politicians corrupted by the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), a U.S. mining company is poised to make commercial profit by spreading uranium contamination across eastern Ontario and western Quebec. However, activists led by Grandmother Donna Dillman and Native-Canadian associates have sought to inspire opposition against a $3-million financing deal by an American exploration company. This U.S. transnational enterprise seeks to redevelop a decades-old uranium project near Haliburton in eastern Ontario.
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The Nuclear Waste Management Organization is seeking public input as they begin the process of trying to find a long-term storage facility site for used nuclear fuel. Although New Brunswick, a province that uses nuclear energy, has been named as a potential site for the storage facility, Energy Minister Jack Keir says it's too early to pass judgment on the merits of such a facility. He adds that the government believes in the process the organization is undertaking.
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Native leaders in Saskatchewan held a conference yesterday to talk about nuclear waste. The Nuclear Waste management Organization is talking with communities in the hopes of finding a spot to put all of Canada's nuclear waste. They are only in the first stages, they want to consult with different communities, get feedback, and then select a site. Saskatchewan was approached because of the uranium mining done here. The FSIN says they are cautious about the idea, they aren't going to make any quick decisions. Other sites considered are in Ontario, New Brunswick, and Quebec.
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Former Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission boss Linda Keen has stepped down from her role on the CNSC's board of directors, complaining she has been demoted by the government to a position that is an "artificial creation." Keen was president and CEO of the CNSC when the Chalk River nuclear reactor was shut down last year over safety concerns. The shutdown led to a worldwide shortage of medical isotopes until Parliament issued an emergency order to restart the Atomic Energy of Canada reactor, overriding Keen's objections.
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Deposed nuclear-safety chief Linda Keen has quit her diminished job with Canada's atomic-industry watchdog and is speaking out about the need to protect a non-partisan public service. In a letter to Prime Minister Stephen Harper, the former president and chief executive officer of the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) resigned Monday as she was scheduled to assume her demoted post as a commissioner with the federal agency. The Harper government fired her from the top job after the commission forced a shutdown last fall at a Chalk River reactor that produces vital isotopes for medical uses.
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This inquiry took place April of 2008 and has dozens of presentations on uranium mining issues. Couldn't be a finer piece of material!
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Collectively, they're known as atomic veterans. Hundreds of thousands of military personnel participated in bomb tests between 1945 and 1962, the period in which the United States conducted atmospheric tests of nuclear weapons. These include the U.S. occupation forces at Hiroshima and Nagasaki soon after the atomic bombs were dropped on Japan at the close of World War II.
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Canadians have until Dec. 15 to make suggestions on the design of the process to select a storage facility site for high-level nuclear waste. The Nuclear Waste Management Organization is responsible for the long-term management of Canada's used nuclear fuel. It was established in 2002 by Ontario Power Generation Inc., Hydro- Québec and New Brunswick Power Corporation, under the Nuclear Fuel Waste Act. People can make a submission, participate in an online discussion or complete a survey on the NWMO website, a news release from the organization says.
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In June 2007, the Government of Canada selected Adaptive Phased Management (APM) as Canada's approach for the long-term management of used nuclear fuel. The Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO) is committed to working collaboratively with interested and potentially affected citizens and organizations as it implements APM. The NWMO is launching a dialogue to design a process for identifying and selecting an informed and willing community to host a deep geological repository.
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The Liberal government's road to self-sufficiency via energy exports may have encountered a speed bump yesterday. Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick offered a reminder that the transmission capacity between Eastern Canada and the Northeastern United States is not the only challenge facing the energy exporting aspirations of Atlantic Canadian premiers and Quebec. As the biggest and most energy hungry state at the Conference of the New England Governors and Eastern Canadian Premiers, Massachusetts represents the biggest target for Canadian premiers who are hoping to cash in on energy exports.
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After a long and challenging 14 months, Cameco Corporation has received permission to resume production at its uranium hexaflouride (UF6) plant. “We’re in the final stages of putting the plant back into operation and production should start within the next several days,” said Andy Oliver, vice president of Cameco’s fuel services division, during a presentation to Port Hope council on Sept. 16. He detailed the status of the contamination at Cameco’s Port Hope conversion plant.
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British Columbia, Sept 16 (Reuters) - Cameco Corp has resolved the leak problem at its Port Hope, Ontario, nuclear conversion plant and hopes to restart it at a reduced rate within the next few days, the company said on Tuesday.
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The Parti-Quebecois is demanding an explanation from Hydro-Quebec on its plans to overhaul the Gentilly-2 nuclear-power-plant in Becancour. It wants Hydro to appear before a parliamentary committee to justify the plan. The PQ says the studies that prompted Hydro and the Charest government to OK the project should have been made public when they announced the 2-billion dollar renovation.
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Canada's atomic veterans say they are being kept "in the dark" about the details of a financial package to compensate them for their exposure to nuclear blasts during the Cold War. The government announced the package last week, but the retired military personnel are still trying to get answers about the compensation, which one veteran labelled as a political move by the Conservatives to deal with an embarrassing issue so it doesn't become a problem in the election campaign. Those who took part in the atomic tests or were involved in the cleanup after a reactor accident at Chalk River, Ont., in the 1950s are eligible to apply for a $24,000 payment.
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Chalk up another milestone for Bruce Power. The executive assistant to the President of Bruce Power, James Scongack says last week's announcement of the make-up of the joint review panel to look into the proposed Bruce Power new nuclear power plant project is significant. Scongack says the quick announcement shows the government is interested in Bruce Power moving ahead with its environmental impact statement.
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James Chilman makes jokes about glowing in the dark. His buddy -- Jim Huntley from the same platoon of the Queen's Own Rifles, Second Battalion -- marvels at how absurd it was to practise field-stripping a rifle while marching toward a towering mushroom cloud minutes after the detonation of an atomic bomb.
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Lakeshore Road residents in partnership with Lake Ontario Waterkeeper are seeking an application for an investigation to determine whether Cameco Corporation may be in violation of Ontario's environmental laws. The province has until early November to respond to the request. The Port Hope application was submitted to the Environmental Commissioner of Ontario on Monday, Aug. 25, Lake Ontario Waterkeeper president and environmental lawyer Mark Mattson said Thursday, August 28.
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Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd., is sitting on a stockpile of orphaned bomb-grade uranium it doesn't want to talk about. Since the Crown corporation pulled the plug in May on further development of its two troubled MAPLE reactors at its Chalk River, Ont., nuclear laboratories, officials have debated how to deal with the estimated 45 kilograms of highly enriched uranium (HEU) the United States exported to Canada for production of medical isotopes in the now-doomed reactors. Whatever the options are now for the highly enriched uranium, AECL isn't saying.
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