Really? We're going to call it a dump? Just to stir up bad imagery?
How about safe long term storage?
this post was submitted on 02 May 2024
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Of course we're going to call it a dump. We can't have people getting too comfortable with the idea of nuclear energy; It's too effective for the waste it produces, and besides we have entire industries focused on making money off of natural gas. It's down-right anti-capitalist!
A farm town? Where the land is fertile? We're going to put a nuclear dump in fertile, food-growing land? Sounds fucking cool, Canada ....sounds real cool
600 metres below the countryside
It’s to be stored in bedrock more than half a kilometre down, sealed in an impermeable polymer.
It’s not perfect, but it’s a hell of a lot better than oil/gas which store their waste in your lungs.
Nearly every old gas station leaves behind a polluted property that someone else will be on the hook for if they want the land.
People buy cases and cases of bottled drinking water here every day in northern Ontario where we are surrounded by probably the world's cleanest fresh water supply. The bottled water people buy is all from agricultural farm lands in southern Ontario and Quebec bottled by companies who pay nothing for the water and pennies for the plastic. People pay companies a fortune for the plastic that holds highly treated municipal tap water to drink.
Is it any wonder that officials don't really think twice about dumping nuclear waste right next to one of Canada's most densely populated centres?
We have millions and millions of acres of empty land across all of Canada from the high Arctic to the US border ... and someone thought it was a good idea to consider dumping nuclear waste about 100km from Canada's largest city.
Teeswater is also the same area of the province where all those cheap bottle water companies harvest most of their water.
The paving over of gta farm land is worse, creates a much bigger footprint
I don't care about worse... putting a nuclear dump in fertile land is stupid.. put it in the far Northwest Territories or something where there's no people or you know.. farmland that we could use for food growing instead of for nuclear dumps.
Unfortunately the North West Territories aren’t part of Ontario
They have their own problems... Like a former gold mine with enough arsenic to poison every man, woman, and child on earth -- that they're struggling to keep frozen (i.e. 'safe') due to climate change.
I mean we like paving over our farmland for strip malls and SFH subdivisions as well so it's not a new thing for us to disrepsect our limited supply of farmland. Who needs food security anyway?