ApocaDocs: Canadian firm's nuclear waste plan near Lake Huron stirs Michigan fears

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Posted Mon May 27 2013: from The Detroit News:


	Canadian firm's nuclear waste plan near Lake Huron stirs Michigan fears http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1369668016 A Canadian company's plan to store nuclear waste near Lake Huron is alarming environmental groups and some Michigan lawmakers, who fear the project could eventually harm the Great Lakes. For years, Ontario Power Generation has pushed to construct a deep geologic repository -- a massive underground storage facility to handle low- to intermediate-level nuclear wastes -- on the grounds of its Bruce nuclear facility near Kincardine, Ont. The company wants to locate its storage facility 2,230 feet below the ground and three-quarters of a mile from the Lake Huron shore.

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