August 29th is the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission’s (CNSC) deadline for comments on its “Hypothetical Severe Nuclear Accident and Effectiveness of Mitigation Measures” report.
Back in 2012 we all urged the CNSC to consider what would happen if a Fukushima-scale accident took place in Canada. Would the CNSC’s emergency measures have been effective?
Now we knew we would get a big pile of assurances that all is well and don’t worry, but we thought we might get a legit review in light of the disaster in Japan. However, CNSC hasn’t looked at a Fukushima-scale accident scenario. The report conveniently picked a less dramatic “hypothetical” accident to examine.
Dr. Gordon Edwards of the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility pointed out the study: “says nothing about the actual deposition of radioactive materials on roofs, walls, gardens, trees, and soil, leading to stubborn radioactive contamination that delivers lingering radioactive exposures to citizens over a very wide area – contamination that lasts years or even decades after the accident, preventing reoccupation of evacuated areas for two years or more, and requiring extensive and expensive decontamination efforts that are only partially successful.”
To ask for a proper review from the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission click HERE