Michigan Senate questions nuclear waste dump on Lake Huron
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“Lake Huron and the Great Lakes are some of Michigan's most vital natural resources, containing 95 percent of North America’s surface fresh water and providing drinking water to tens of millions of people,” said Hopgood in a statement. “This type of nuclear waste repository – planned within water-soluble limestone – is unprecedented and could present a danger to our lakes and our environment.”

Hopgood’s resolution sketched out the parameters of the issue.

“Ontario Power Generation is proposing to construct an underground, long-term burial facility for all of Ontario’s low- and intermediate-level radioactive waste at the Bruce Nuclear Generating Station, some of which is long-lived intermediate waste,” read the resolution. “This site (is) less than a mile inland from the shore of Lake Huron and about 440 yards below the lake level.”