Interviews with experts on nuclear power and nuclear waste in Canada.
Northern Saskatchewan is forever polluted by uranium mines old and new. The people of northern Saskatchewan are shackled to the industry causing the pollution. Listen to the details with long time resident Candyce Paul. Get updated on all nuclear in northern Saskatchewan at the Interchurch Uranium Committee Educational Cooperative, at Committee for Future Generations and Keepers Of the Water .
The Point Lepreau nuclear station on New Brunswick's Bay of Fundy borders the Traditional Homeland of Wolastoqiyik and Passamaquoddy. Wolastoqewi Traditional Grand Chief Spasaqsit Possessom, or English name Ron Tremblay, tells us the truth about the "corporate captured" politics in his homeland of Wolastokuk. See the official Wolastoq Grand Council statement on nuclear developments here. Visit the New Brunswick R.A.V.E.N. website here.
Canada's main site for nuclear innovation...and accidents. Follow the trail of nuclear wastes across our country to ground zero of Canada's nuclear ambitions: Chalk River, Ontario. Ole Hendrickson is president of the Ottawa River Institute, member of Concerned Citizens of Renfrew County and Area. Learn more about the dangers of tritium exposure at Tritium Awareness Project.
One of Canada's longest-standing radioactive contamination sites, the community of Port Hope on the shores of Lake Ontario, is presently undergoing a $1.2B federal cleanup of historic radioactive wastes. Port Hope also has two nuclear facilities operating with enriched, depleted and natural uranium within its boundaries, without a buffer zone. Faye More grew up in Port Hope and leads a volunteer citizen group advocating for independent health monitoring and real accountability to the community by the federal government and the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission - the CNSC. The Port Hope Community Health Concerns Committee, which Faye helped found in 1995, has their letter to the Prime Minister listed here, and their powerpoint submission to NRCan listed here
Join long-time activist Anne Lindsey to learn about Pinawa. Carved out of the forest north of Winnipeg, this community was home to Canada's experimental reactor, now a 20-year relic slated for "entombment". A new experimental reactor is coming. Learn more at Clean Green Saskatchewan. To learn about Small Modular Reactors (SMRs), vist Canadian Environmental Law Association.
Meet two citizens from Teeswater, a small farming community about to undergo big changes. What is a Deep Geological Repository? Are citizen concerns being recognized by our 'regulators'? Learn from Michelle Stein and Bill Noll, then please visit the citizen organization, Protect Our Waterways - No Nuclear Waste at https://www.protectsouthbruce-nodgr.org/ to learn more.
Brennain Lloyd has been representing public interest regarding nuclear waste in Ontario since the late 1980's. She tells us about the regulators, their serious shortcomings, their faulty plans for DGR (Deep Geological Repository), the dangers of 'reprocessing', and she points us to some better ways to manage nuclear waste in Ontario and Canada. To learn more, visit nuclearwaste.ca and knownuclearwaste.ca
A backgrounder with international expert Dr. Gordon Edwards. Learn the basics on radioactivity, uranium mining and processing in Canada, and the truth about uranium's unnatural offspring, plutonium. Dr. Gordon Edwards is a co-founder and president of the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility www.ccnr.org
An interview with Mary Yett, daughter of Dr. Fowler Yett. Learn the origin story of nuclear science and explore the first ripples of its intergenerational effects. http://hiroshimadaycoalition.ca/