Jun 20, 2018
PART 2 – GO TO: • Port Hope Radioactive Wastes 2 (Edwards, A…
Dr. Gordon Edwards speaks to citizens of Atikokan, north of Lake Superior, on characteristics of radioactive wastes from uranium processing at Port Hope, just east of Toronto. The Canadian Government set up a “Siting Task Force” to find a “willing host community” in Ontario to accept voluminous long-lived radioactive wastes from Canada’s supplying uranium to the US nuclear weapons program from 1941 to 1972. The Task Force ultimately came up empty-handed. Today, in 2018, the most expensive municipal environmental cleanup in Canada’s history is underway at Port Hope, to collect and consolidate a million cubic metres of radioactive wastes from ravines, roadways, the harbor and hundreds of residential properties, in two huge mounds just a few kilometres north of Lake Ontario. The mounds are designed to last for 500 years. The radon-generating wastes will remain radiotoxic for tens of thousands of years.