Claire McCormack interview Rod McLeod, Director of SOS Great Lakes

Originally published: 7 June 2017

WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT OPG'S PLAN TO STORE NUCLEAR WASTE ON THE SHORE OF LAKE HURON?

Listen to Claire McCormack's interview with Rod McLeod (http://bit.ly/2r31zU7), Director of SOS Great Lakes, for more information on why we are concerned about:

(1) the storage of nuclear waste in a Deep Geological Repository (DGR);

(2) Ontario Power Generation's (OPG) planning and reasoning; and

(3) public acceptance in Kincardine (ON) and in the Great Lakes community.

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For more information about the plan to bury nuclear waste on the shore of Lake Huron visit our website: www.sosgreatlakes.org

Video Transcript:

Text: Claire McCormick interviews Rod McLeod, Director of SOS Great Lakes, January 2017

The plan for Kincardine is to dig a hole 690 meters. It’s less than a kilometer from the shore of Lake Huron, and their [OPG’s] plan is to take all their low and intermediate waste from Bruce and from elsewhere in Ontario - Darlington, Pickering - and put it in this big hole and seal it and abandon it. There will be no ability to monitor it going forward. There are other DGRs in the world that are only 75 meters deep, and those can be monitored, and those have been successful. There is no DGR similar to the one OPG is planning in Kincardine that has ever succeeded. Everywhere in the world it’s been tried, it’s failed.