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The Issue: The safety of nuclear power became a hot topic this week in the wake of Japan’s reactor crisis.

Porter: On nuclear safety, let's think the unthinkable
Published On Wed Mar 23 2011

The Pickering Nuclear Generating Station stands in the background as children play on the beach in Pickering, Ont. on March 16, 2011.
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From: Nuclear Information and Resource Service
Subject:Updates, actions, and a new grassroots program
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March 27, 2011,

Dear Friends,

The Issue: The safety of nuclear power became a hot topic this week in the wake of Japan’s reactor crisis.

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Letters to the Editor
• Ratepayers request for study
By Dale Dewar 

It's critical that residents of the Great Lakes Basin who care about the future health of these Lakes read these documents, inform ourselves and our government officials, and speak out against this proposal. This proposed radioactive dump is ostensibly for the so-called "low" and "intermediate" level radioactive wastes from OPG's 20 Ontario reactors. But concerns and questions abound. Why build a dump deep underground, (with an entrance and shaft less than a mile from Lake Huron - an entrance and shaft that are located on a spit that sticks out into Lake Huron.