Canada Explores Option of Dumping Nuclear Waste near U.S. Border

摘要

A Canadian plan to build an underground nuclear waste dump less than a mile from Lake Huron is getting unfriendly attention from US lawmakers, who are trying to force the Obama administration to invoke a 106-year-old treaty against its northern neighbor. Though a Canadian review panel declared that the proposed Deep Geologic Repository will have "no significant adverse effects on the Great Lakes," opponents wonder why a site so close to the world's largest freshwater system was chosen.