Don’t underestimate ravages of climate crisis when storing nuclear waste: Meg Sears

The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission should heed Mother Nature's warning and deny the present proposal. In today’s weather, much less the future, the commission is unlikely to meet its goal to keep nuclear waste secure for hundreds of years.

What happens when a federal Environmental Impact Assessment is fundamentally flawed? Will authorities pause for a rethink when a key assumption and design limitation of the assessment is wrong, risking catastrophic failure? 

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