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JOYAL APPLEWHAITE: To me it reminds me of home, which is Barbados. I live right on the lake, like near Lake Ontario .
NORMAN HERMANT: Sixty years ago, Ontario decided on a nuclear path. It's spent hundreds of billions of dollars, and accepted the risks, and the radioactive waste, for carbon free power.NORMAN HERMANT: The province’s conservative premier, Doug Ford, says there are no plans to change course.DOUG FORD: I think it's absolutely critical.
GLENN HARVEL: My advice to you is you don't put your foot in the water on this one. You have to make a commitment, and you have to dive in and accept that you are going to do this technology. You have to make a strong commitment to nuclear. NORMAN HERMANT: Ontario has about three million radioactive fuel bundles in storage. After a decade in pools of water, they’re put in containers and kept on site at power plants.
But this mock-up won’t become real unless potential host communities vote in favour. That’s not guaranteed. Keith Brooks from Environmental Defence wants to see Ontario’s nuclear plans dramatically scaled back.
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