Canada to Join Controversial Nuclear Partnership: Toronto Star

Andy Canuck

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Fri Nov-30-07 09:49 AM
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Canada to Join Controversial Nuclear Partnership: Toronto Star

Source: The Toronto Star

The Conservative government announced today that Canada is joining an international nuclear club that's drawn fierce criticism from environmentalists.

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The partnership, first pitched early in 2006 by U.S. President George W. Bush, proposes expanding and promoting nuclear energy worldwide by developing a new and unproven breed of "fast reactors" that can burn nuclear waste.

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But the plan is highly controversial because it proposes re-using nuclear waste, a practice effectively banned in Canada and the United States since the 1970s for security reasons.

Read more: http://www.thestar.com/News/GTA/article/281192

I suspect this part of the SPP.

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LakeSamish706

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Fri Nov-30-07 09:57 AM
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1. Haven't heard about this, what is the opposition doing to stop it? n/t

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Andy Canuck

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Fri Nov-30-07 12:40 PM
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2. I think it has taken everybody by surprise. I am awaiting

for opposition responses.

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