Lake Huron site best suited for nuclear-waste bunker, OPG report affirms
TORONTO — A new report from Ontario Power Generation overwhelmingly affirms the utility’s long-held position that the best place for a nuclear-waste bunker is on the Lake Huron shoreline.
One of the biggest problems with burying the hazardous waste somewhere else would come from having to truck it up to 2,000 kilometres, increasing the risk of radiological accidents and pollution, the 143-page analysis concludes.
The only minor advantage — amid a sea of disadvantages — to locating a bunker elsewhere might be less disturbance of indigenous heritage sites, such as burial grounds, the report finds.
Even so, the overall impact on Aboriginal Peoples is likely to be lower if the deep geologic repository is built, as proposed, at the Bruce nuclear plant near Kincardine, Ont., the report states.