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Concerned Citizens of Renfrew County and Area (CCRCA) is an incorporated, non-profit organization that has been working for the clean-up and prevention of radioactive pollution from the nuclear industry in the Ottawa Valley for 40+ years. Our current focus is the proposed giant mound for one million cubic meters of radioactive waste at Chalk River, Ontario and the proposed “entombment” of the Nuclear Power Demonstration reactor at Rolphton, Ontario. Both of these proposed nuclear waste disposal projects risk contaminating the Ottawa River, a drinking water source for millions of Canadians. 
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NEW: Ten things Canadians need to know about the giant radioactive waste mound coming to the Ottawa River

NOUVEAU:  Dix choses que les Canadiens doivent savoir sur le monticule de déchets radioactifs en bordure de la rivière des Outaouais

La Presse: Projet de site d’enfouissement de déchets nucléaires de Chalk River « L’endroit est mauvais et la méthode est mauvaise » (English)

Algonquin First Nations oppose giant radioactive waste mound beside the Ottawa River on their unceded territory (français)

Canada’s failed nuclear waste policy is no surprise given our country’s deficient nuclear governance regime (Hill Times letter)

Flaws and deficiencies in the CNSC-led Environmental Assessment for the NSDF

OVERVIEW: Six reasons to STOP the Ottawa River radioactive waste landfill (français)

Open Letter ~ Cleanup of Chalk River radioactive wastes (français)

What would go into the Chalk River Mound (NSDF)?

Who will fix Canada’s nuclear governance gaps?(français)

Reforms needed at the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (français)

Critical Flaws, Errors and Omissions in CNSC staff’s EA report and case to approve the Chalk River Mound (français)

UPDATED: How would the Chalk River Mound (NSDF) leak? Let us count some of the ways

Proponent’s study appears to show the Chalk River Mound would disintegrate

IMPORTANT: International peer review finds deficiencies in Canada’s nuclear safety framework

Letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau: Requesting urgent attention to nuclear safety gaps in Canada

Letter to Treasury Board: Problems with the handling of Canada’s $8 billion federal nuclear waste liability by AECL

Petition to the Auditor General of Canada: Nuclear governance problems in Canada

Critical comments from 15 former AECL officials and scientists on CNL Radioactive Waste Disposal Projects

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Islands and rapids in the Ottawa River downstream of Chalk River~photo by Ray Nash

Protest canoe(2)

“No Nuke Dump on the Ottawa River”, Riverkeeper Parade, September 10, 2017

 

This was always called God’s country and for all the generations that have been here it is God’s country. It doesn’t sound like God’s country now – it sounds like the devil’s mound and that is what is going to be up there. (preface to last question of the day to CNL representatives at Old Fort William, July 15, 2017 see transcript here)

Old Fort William Cottager

 “The incredibly complex and messy radioactive contamination at the Chalk River site has gone largely ignored for almost 70 years – see http://ccnr.org/crl_sacrifice.pdf ]. Now, within the span of a few years, we have the prospect of foreign companies making profits at Canadian taxpayer expense by building a “quick and dirty” gigantic mound of radioactive waste that will be difficult or impossible to remediate when it starts falling apart. The mound would include fission products like cesium-137, strontium-90, and iodine-129, transuranic actinides like plutonium, neptunium and americium, and activation products like tritium, nickel-59 and carbon-14, along with 14 tons of asbestos and lots of toxic chemicals, in a hopelessly entangled mix that will be poorly characterized and impossibly difficult for future generations to try to deal with.”

Read the submission: goo.gl/9io9Vq

Gordon Edwards, CCNR, excerpt from “A Heap of Trouble” submission to the CNSC August 16, 2017