Second, the original proponent of the So how is it that this scenario seems destined reactor decommissioning was Atomic to unfold – soon – and there is scarcely a Energy of Canada, Limited (AECL) murmur to be heard in the public sphere? a federal Crown Corporation, and What has changed? “owner” of the nuclear waste that the A few things, as it turns out. [...] The new proponent Pinawa in 1963, the agreement between is Canadian Nuclear Labs (CNL), a the federal government (responsible for consortium of multi-nationals, including most nuclear matters) and the Province of SNC Lavalin, Mitsubishi, Fluor Corp, Manitoba was that at the end of the reactor’s Rolls Royce and CH2M HILL, to whom life, the site would be restored to “green the Federal Government has. [...] in Pinawa, and who know the reactor (204) 927-3200 Notwithstanding the residual contamination and the site well, were consulted by CNL email remaining from the multiple accidents and for the new plan, and are, incidentally, ccpamb@policyalternatives.ca highly critical of it. [...] The Harper government’s blog original agreement and instead prefers “in- changes to Environmental Assessment www.policyfix.ca situ decommissioning”, (ISD) a proposal legislation placed responsibility for twitter which leaves all the (non-spent fuel) the safety and soundness of nuclear plans in the hands of the regulator, the @ccpamb there is an alternative. [...] It’s hardly comforting to know that in nuclear matters, Canada is Anne Lindsey is formerly the Executive now reputed to have a “benign regulatory Director of the Manitoba Eco-Network, a environment” according to the World long-time observer and activist on nuclear Nuclear News.
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