Drinking water threat from proposed giant radioactive mound beside the Ottawa River highlighted on national television
Dear Editor,
Canadians in Eastern Canada are waking up this week to the specter of a gargantuan mound of radioactive waste beside the Ottawa River that could threaten their drinking water.
On March 25, the Radio Canada TV science program “Découverte” featured a one-hour long, in-depth look at the proposed giant radioactive waste dump which would be located on the side of a hill, next to a swamp, less than one kilometre from the Ottawa River at Chalk River, Ontario.
According to the program:
The Canadian Nuclear Laboratories, operated since 2015 by SNC-Lavalin and four Anglo-American multinationals, is the project proponent.
Up to one million cubic metres of radioactive waste would be placed on the slopes of a hill in an 18-metre-high, 16-hectare facility, less than one kilometre from the Ottawa River, drinking water source for millions of Canadians downstream in Ottawa, Gatineau, Laval and Montreal.
The mound would contain radioactive toxins including strontium, cesium and tritium.
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