Some organization called the Nuclear Waste Management Organization wants to store a high-level waste disposal site on the Canadian Shield in Schreiber (high-level waste meaning storing u-238, u-239, u-240,u-241 in an underground facility).
Pharmcokinetcs is something all of these elements have in common, meaning all nuclear elements emit radio active isotopes, carcinogen and mutative affects follow.
Gamma rays aren't good! Sure it would be safe to store these underground and forget about them, but each of these elements have half-life of up to 10000-25000 years before it even starts to decay, with the highly probable odds that the gamma rays will turn the underground facilities into nuclear fuel because of radiation from the waste would turn the host rock that surrounds, radiated anyway.
The Canadian Shield was not meant to store nuclear waste because the Canadian shield is in my mind is unstable and suitable for this facility, and a rock(Canadian Shield) that is always moving is a fact that facility will either move with the host rock or start to wear and eventually break just by itself, over-time.
The chances in the future of the facility leaking into a lake, fault line or whatever etc. would be devastating for Northern Ontario and the great lake and our future generations.
I do not like hearing anything nuclear in or around here, I read it in the news paper and woke up furious. The publicity this organization only presents the short-term of 24,000-year decay of spent nuclear fuel, because long-term effects are still unknown to us as a human race.
I love this rich area we live in and this rich environment provides us with everything we need as humans. To abuse it is a crime.
I have a very wide knowledge in geology and I'm of Aboriginal decent, but I'm going to be enrolled in mining engineering this Septembe, with the aspiration of becoming a geologist one day.
I know that uranium was not supposed to be used the way it is and by God do not allow this to happen.
But if you as the mayor feel the future residency of Lake Superior and surrounding areas should be punished for our wrongdoings then by all means I say let them come onto to our sacred land and dumped man-made horrific poisons into the ground that supports all life.
For what? A few jobs that'll provide enough money for a few families to move to Schreiber and then become irradiated? One of the biggest mistakes we make in life is that we live today instead of making a difference for tomorrow. I'm against nuclear energy and weapons, turning such a beautiful mineral -- God's gift - like uraninite into the monster substance that will effect so much. It'll probably cost what like 20 billion dollars to recycle the poison, but they'd rather install a $1-billion facility to forget about the company's problem.
