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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 nuclear waste, in particular 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. Check out our popular one-page fact sheets  here
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NEW: Algonquin First Nations Do NOT CONSENT to a giant radioactive landfill beside the Kitchi Sibi in their unceded territory

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

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

Nuclear waste is the most toxic waste ever produced by mankind.  These toxic wastes are literally indestructible. We don’t know how to shut off radioactivity. We have to store these wastes safely and somehow keep it out of the environment for these incredibly long times. For the benefit of what? Twenty or 30 years of electricity?

Dr. Gordon Edwards, Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility

“It appears that annual expenditures for AECL more than doubled to almost one billion dollars after privatization. We are asking the Minister of Natural Resources to account for this increase”.

Ole Hendrickson, CCRCA researcher