Lake Huron Nuclear Dump
ONTARIO, CANADA, PLANS TO BUILD NORTH AMERICA’S FIRST “DEEP-ROCK” NUCLEAR WASTE DUMP. About a half mile from the shore of Lake Huron.
The dump would carve out 38 huge caverns 700 yards underground in limestone and shale that supposedly has remained geologically stable for the past 450 million years. Low-level waste such as mops, clothing and floor sweepings and intermediate-level waste such as used reactor parts, would be stored there.
Construction would start in 2013, with the first waste - which is already stored at the Kincardine facility - being buried in 2017.
Congressman Bart Stupak, D-Menominee is leading American opposition to the plan. And the protest is gathering steam.
Meanwhile, in the US: Reid and Ensign Expected to Stop President Bush’s Yucca Mountain Plan. Nobody wants this in their backyard.
(via Dig Michigan)