KINCARDINE, ONTARIO (AP)-- A Canadian advisory panel has submitted a recommendation on whether to let a power company bury waste from nuclear power plants less than a mile from Lake Huron.
The Joint Review Panel didn't provide details but says it had forwarded a report to Canada's minister of the environment, who will make it public. No date or time for its public release was provided.
Publicly owned Ontario Power Generation wants to bury 7.1 million cubic feet of low- and intermediate-level waste from nuclear plants about 2,230 feet below the earth's surface at the Bruce Power generating station near Kincardine, Ontario.
Company officials say it would be entombed in rock and wouldn't reach the lake.
Opponents say there's no way assure that, as some material would be radioactive for centuries.