Nuclear Waste

Dr. Ian Fairlie, an international consultant on radioactivity in the nuclear industry, provides details and warnings for Canadians drinking tap water in Ottawa, or living near a CANDU reactor. The interview closes with Dr. Fairlie's stark warning for the world due to Canada's leadership pursuing reprocessing of nuclear fuels.

For Dr. Helen Caldicott's website, go here. Specifically, information on the effects of radionuclides can be found here. Watch Dr. Caldicott's Academy Award winning documentaryIf You Love This Planet informing the world on the truth about nuclear war. Follow Physicians for Social Responsibility and International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War , support ICAN - International Campaign for the Abolishment of Nuclear Weapons and follow our planet's implementation of the U.N. TPNW - Treaty on Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. Follow Dr. Caldicott's inspirations: buy Nevil Shute's book ⁠On the Beach⁠ or Germaine Greer's ⁠The Female Eunich⁠. Read the international court of justice ruling on ⁠French atmospheric testing⁠. Episode fact review: Iodine131⁠ mimics iodine; airborn; lands on grass and bio-concentrates in grass then in cow's milk; passed to us and causes thyroid cancer. ⁠Cesium137⁠ mimics potassium; beta emitter and gamma emitter; causes muscle, brain, ovarian cancer. ⁠Strontium90⁠ mimics calcium; lasts 200 years; beta and gamma emitter; causes osteogenic carcinoma (bone cancer). ⁠Tritium ⁠mimics hydrogen; unites with oxygen to make H30 tritiated water that enters through skin and gut; causes birth defects and cancers, particularly leukemia.

A small group of citizens tries to hold the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission to task after it blindly approved BWXT, a US arms producer, into the next decade. This facility creates nuclear fuel, and is located in the heart of a small Canadian city. Learn more at nopellets.ca  

Northern Saskatchewan is forever polluted by uranium mines old and new. The people of northern Saskatchewan are shackled to the industry causing the pollution.  Listen to the details with long time resident Candyce Paul.  Get updated on all nuclear in northern Saskatchewan at the Interchurch Uranium Committee Educational Cooperative, at Committee for Future Generations and Keepers Of the Water .

The Point Lepreau nuclear station on New Brunswick's Bay of Fundy borders the Traditional Homeland of Wolastoqiyik and Passamaquoddy. Wolastoqewi Traditional Grand Chief Spasaqsit Possessom, or English name Ron Tremblay, tells us the truth about the "corporate captured" politics in his homeland of Wolastokuk. See the official Wolastoq Grand Council statement on nuclear developments here. Visit the New Brunswick R.A.V.E.N. website here.

Canada's main site for nuclear innovation...and accidents. Follow the trail of nuclear wastes across our country to ground zero of Canada's nuclear ambitions: Chalk River, Ontario. Ole Hendrickson is president of the Ottawa River Institute, member of Concerned Citizens of Renfrew County and Area.  Learn more about the dangers of tritium exposure at Tritium Awareness Project. 

One of Canada's longest-standing radioactive contamination sites, the community of Port Hope on the shores of Lake Ontario, is presently undergoing a $1.2B federal cleanup of historic radioactive wastes. Port Hope also has two nuclear facilities operating with enriched, depleted and natural uranium within its boundaries, without a buffer zone. Faye More grew up in Port Hope and leads a volunteer citizen group advocating for independent health monitoring and real accountability to the community by the federal government and the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission - the CNSC. The Port Hope Community Health Concerns Committee, which Faye helped found in 1995, has their letter to the Prime Minister listed here, and their powerpoint submission to NRCan listed here 

Join long-time activist Anne Lindsey to learn about Pinawa. Carved out of the forest north of Winnipeg, this community was home to Canada's experimental reactor, now a 20-year relic slated for "entombment". A new experimental reactor is coming. Learn more at Clean Green Saskatchewan. To learn about Small Modular Reactors (SMRs), vist Canadian Environmental Law Association.

Meet two citizens from Teeswater, a small farming community about to undergo big changes.  What is a Deep Geological Repository? Are citizen concerns being recognized by our 'regulators'?  Learn from Michelle Stein and Bill Noll, then please visit the citizen organization, Protect Our Waterways - No Nuclear Waste at https://www.protectsouthbruce-nodgr.org/ to learn more.

Brennain Lloyd has been representing public interest regarding nuclear waste in Ontario since the late 1980's.  She tells us about the regulators, their serious shortcomings, their faulty plans for DGR (Deep Geological Repository), the dangers of 'reprocessing', and she points us to some better ways to manage nuclear waste in Ontario and Canada.    To learn more, visit nuclearwaste.ca and knownuclearwaste.ca