e4 CastlegarNews October 10, 1990

ENVIRONMENT

Nuclear waste dump faces opposition

By DENNIS BUECKERT
The Canadian Press

Imagine cutting a shaft in the solid granite of the
Canadian Shield deep enough to swallow the CN Tower.

At the bottom would be a massive vault capable of
holding 200,000 tonnes — the equivalent of 2,000 fully
loaded freight cars — of highly radioactive nuclear waste.

‘That,-in-essence, is the plan put forward by Atomic
Energy of Canada Ltd., a federal Crown corporation, for
getting rid of the deadly waste currently in temporary
storage near Canada’s nuclear plants.

The proposed facility would take 10 years to con-
struct and cost $8 billion to $12 billion to. build and
operate.

First, the plan must pass a federal environmental
review, now getting under way.

“This is the most complex subject we've ever
reviewed,” says Susan Toller of the Federal Environmen-
tal Assessment Review Office. ‘It’s going to be incredible
to assess it all.’”

The review is shaping up as a politically charged
debate in which critics of nuclear power will fight the con-
cept on health and safety grounds.

“The solution of disposal in the Shield is im-
prudent,’’ says Norm Rubin of Toronto-based Energy
Probe.

Around the world, proposals for nuclear dumps have
invariably sun into controversy.

Plans for a facility in Vermont were shelved after
fierce opposition from the northeastern states. The latest
plan in the United States would put the site in Utah, but
that state has gone to court to stop it.

When geologists began field research for AECL near
Madoc, Ont., in 1977, there was-a public outcry. The
Crown corporation was told it wasn’t welcome and hasn’t
been back since.

It faced similar difficulties throughout Northern On-
tario, but managed to proceed after the federal and On-
tario governments stated unequivocally that the research
was not related to selecting a site.

Northern Ontario remains the most likely location
for a dump. With 17 of Canada’s 19 nuclear reactors and
three more under construction, Ontario generates the
lion’s share of waste and has suitable terrain.

AECL is optimistic about getting public support.
“We've got a very good technical solution that scientists
will accept,” says David Torgerson, a vice-president of
AECL.

“*We have a responsibility to deal with the waste in
this generation,”’ adds Torgerson, a former school techer
with a down-to-earth manner.

‘*We don't have the right to export that problem to
the future.”

Since Canada began using nuclear power in 1962, he
says, it has accumulated 14,000 tonnes of highly radioac-
tive waste — enough to fill an Olympic-size swimming
Poot:

That may not seem like much, but spent fuel emits
deadly radiation for centuries. Even after 500 years, some
radioactive elements could be harmful if they got into the
air, water or food.

And the amount of waste is building up. The backlog
is expected to reach 42,000 tonnes by 2000 and 191,000
tonnes by 2035.

“*Fhis-takes-on @ Véry great importance indeed in
light of the fact that there is still no proven method for
disposing of this highly radioactive material,” the Com-
mons environment committee said in a 1987 report.

The report called for the waste to be urgently dealt
with.
“ on the of nuclear
power plants in Canada should be imposed until the

people of Canada have agreed on an acceptable solution

for the disposal of high-level radioactive wast
There is no official moratorium now, but no new
nuclear plants have been approved since the Darlington

and placed in containers made of copper or titanium. The
vault would be scaled with special clay and concrete.
‘Those measures don’t satisfy anti-nuctear activists.
Energy Fivbe's Rubin says that even the mos
i after long

facility, east of Toronto, which began power
earlier this year,

However, Ontario Hydro has proposed
three new plants in the next 25 years, and New Brunswick
is considering a second plant at Point Lepreau.

Highlyradioactive waste now is mostly stored in
water-filled pools around nuclear power stations. Such
units were never intended to be permanent.

Over the years, every conceivable method has been
studied for disposing of nuclear waste — from shooting it
into space to embedding it in glass.

Gradually scientists have settled on what they call the
deep geological disposal concept.

“The Canadian Shield has been in place for 2%

ina
“the operation Of any nuctear facility may result in some
issions to the * But it says lion from
the deep disposal site would be a small fraction of thar
in the
tara bid to reduce opposition, AECL has separated
the environmental review from the site selection. The site
will not be chosen until the technology is approved.
Gordon Edwards of the Canadian Coalition for

billion years and hasn’t shown
says Thorgerson. ‘‘All. we're asking is that it remain
stable. At those depths, earthquakes will not have an im-

The spent fuel would be .locked into ceramic pellets.
These would in turn be sealed inside zirconium-alloy tubes

By The Canadian Press

The nuclear waste dump proposed -by Atomic
Energy of Canada Ltd. would be one of the biggest
engineering projects in Canadian history. Here are
some facts and figures:

© The disposal vault would be 500 to 1,000 metres
underground, in rock formations known as plutons
where of is slow.

* AECL has been researching the design for 12
years, completing about 1,000 studies, many of them
at a special underground laboratory in Manitoba.

* Construction would take 10 years, with a
workforce of about 1,100. During the 40 years waste
was placed in the vault there would be about 600 full-
time employees.

© The vault would be a network of rooms and
tunnels totalling four square kilometres.

* The spent fuel would be locked into ceramic

Construction to take 10 years

pellets which don’t readily dissolve in water. These
would be sealed inside zirconium-alloy tubes and
placed in corrosion-resistant containers made of
copper or titanium.

© The $12-billion cost of the facility would be
spread over 70 years. Utilities that use nuclear power
have already placed a one-per-cent surcharge on
electricity bills to cover the cost of the facility.

© The environmental review of the proposal is
expected to be completed in 1994. That would be
followed by the selection of a site and another

review. Once 5

would begin about 2005.

© Wastes would be placed into the facility from
about 2015 to 2065, when it would be full and another
storage place would be required.

* No country has yet built a permanent facility to
store nuclear waste.

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Nuclear is critical of this

“This whole exercise is part of an overall marketing
strategy to get a piece of paper they can wave around and
~say, this problem has now been officially solved and
therefore we can go ahead and sell more nuclear reac-
tors."”

Edwards adds that low-level radioactive waste, such
as uranium mine tailings, presents a greater threat to the
environment than high-level waste frorm power stations,
which is safely stored for now.

““We have 150 million tonnes of low-level radioactive
waste which are getting into rivers and lakes, et cetera.
From a purely environmental point of view this is the top
Priority.”

AECL confirms there are 165 million tonnes of
uranium tailings in Canada, but says they are in natural
basins enclosed by dams and are chemically treated to
eliminate harmful effects on aquatic life.

There also are 250,000 cubic metres of other types of
low-level radioactive waste, such as medical products,
stored in temporary facilities.

Torgerson says there’s research — but no firm
Proposal — on a permanent underground disposal site for
low-level material.

For the time being, most attention is focused on the
high-level waste.

And the environmental review will likely take a long
time. A verdict isn’t expected until 1994. Site selection
would take another 10 years. *

LOCAL NEWS

Squadron gets
new weapons

The 44th Field Engineer Squadron

The C7 rifles, and a related version,

in Trail was the first reserve unit in
B.C. to be issued with the new C7 rifle

the Armoury,

troops.

which replaces the FN/C1.

Local soldiers will be taught how to
strip and assemble the new weapon at
the Department of
National Defence says in a news
release. After learning everything
about the new weapon, range training
will take place at the Casino Range
during two weekends scheduled for
familiarization shooting.

On Oct. 20, during
weekend at the range, the soldiers will
be visited by their primary employers
and members of the media. The
visitors will have a chance to shoot the
new weapons and lunch with the

munition used by other NATO
nations.

They replaced the FN/C1 rifle and
the Cl sub-machine-gun. They are
lighter, easier to maintain and more
reliable and comfortable to use than
the weapons they replace and feature
automatic and semi-automatic firing
capability. Fhe €8 carbine is basically
a C7 with a shorter barrel and
telescoping buttstock. The carbine is
intended for use by the crews of some
armored fighting vehicles.

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Fran Sinclair

Gertrude Frances Sinclair (Maglio) of Castlegar died Oct. 5, 1990,
at Trail after a lengthy illness. She was 63.

Born Jan. 11, 1927 in Lethbridge, Alta., Mrs. Sinclair was educated
in Nelson. A long-time resident of the Kootenays, she married Freddie
Maglio in June 1945 and moved to Castlegar with her family in 1959.
She remarried in March 1982 to Art Sinclair after her first husband's
death in 1981.

She enjoyed dancing, music, knitting and especially enjoyed her
grandchildren.

She is survived by her husband Art; three daughters and sons-in-
law, Lynne and Ron Lightle of Salmon Arm, Cheryl and Jack Closkey,
Pheigh and Harv Newton of Pri
of Portland, Ore., Gladys Swityk of Kelowna, and Phyllis Van Guilder
of Penticton; four brothers, Lynn Davis of Petaluma, Calif., Frank of
Cranbrook, Jim of Princeton, and Len of Castlegar, and their families;
and nine grandchildren.

Fran was predeceased by her father, Frank Davis, in 1959, her
mother, Bertha (Morgan), and her husband, Freddie Maglio, in 1981.

Memorial services were held in the Legion Hall in Castlegar on
Tuesday, Oct. 9 at 2 p.m.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Trail Regional
Hospital Foundation (Extended Care Unit), 1200 Hospital Bench, Trail,
B.C., VIR 4M1.

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