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Getting the shaft. Radioactive Waste Controversy Manitoba
| Author | Walter Robbins |
| Date | 1984 |
| Classification | 3.02.4.10/01 (CANADA - WASTE) |
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From the publication:
SCENARIO The year- 2101. The place, southeastern Manitoba, Canada. The problem - unusually high levels of radioactivity are being detected in the biosphere in a large area surrounding the centre of the consolidated North American nuclear waste repository near Pinawa. Canadian and U.S. atomic energy and environment officials are in emergency meeting in Washington, D.C. to assess the situation and develop evacuation plans for a large region of southern Manitoba, northwest Ontario and northern sections of North Dakota and Minnesota. Just one month earlier, when the monitoring devices first detected the increasing levels of radiation, Department of Energy officials in Ottawa had assured the public that the problem was not serious and that there was " …no risk to the public." At that time radiation levels were still below the North American guideline for "allowable limits" in the environment. The guidelines were established at the Winnipeg convention of 2073 to allow for the construction and operation of the new generation of breeder reactors which were needed to supplement dwindling uranium resources. Authorities had concluded that the unexpected radiation release would increase and continue "indefinitely." It was likely that a breach in the repository had occurred as a result of groundwater intrusion which caused the waste to leak out into the biosphere. Just how many people and how extensive an area might be affected was as yet unknown. Panic had already set in and many people were making hasty plans to vacate the area, many not having a clue as to where they were headed.
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