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The Mirror - Swimming with plutonium

Published: 10 March 2011

Ontario鈥檚 Bruce Power nuclear plant is shipping hundreds of tonnes of radioactive waste up the St. Lawrence. Critics worry this is only the first batch鈥 Such is life in the nuclear era.

鈥淣othing is 100 per cent safe, and it鈥檚 foolish to assume anything would be,鈥 says 9I制作厂免费 civil engineering Professor Patrick Selvadurai. A consultant with the CNSC on geological disposal of nuclear waste, he believes the industry has to be as rigorous, careful and forthright as possible when dealing with transporting waste.

鈥淏ut society is used to the idea of having this as a power source, so we can鈥檛 be hypocritical saying we don鈥檛 want to deal with the waste.鈥

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