If we’re going to spend a billion dollars a year managing our nuclear waste, let’s do it right

Let’s meet or exceed international standards and build secure storage facilities, well away from drinking water sources.

The Ottawa River is a Canadian Heritage River that flows past Parliament Hill—surely we don’t want to be the generation responsible for permanently contaminating it with radioactive waste, writes Lynn Jones. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY LYNN JONES

December 7, 2020

OTTAWA—A contract quietly signed during the 2015 federal election campaign between Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL) and a multinational consortium is costing Canadians

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