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Home My WebLink AboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1977-10-06, Page 26a • • PAGE 2A--GODERICH SIGNAL -STAR, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1977 Stop stampede! Nuclear energy poses real threat A nuclear disaster in Canada will be ultimate result if Ontario Hydro continues to "stampede" toward a nuclear powered economy according to a report released recently by the Ontario Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility .00NR The 600 page document called Half Life was released Friday and, is bt researched by OCNR, a coalition of concerned citizens groups - across Ontario, and will be presented to the Ontario Royal Commission. on Electrec Power Planning ,Porter Commission . The report was released simultaneously 1•ri Toronto, Espanola and Saskatoon and is designed to point out hazards involved with nuclear power and concerns the groups have about the safety of nuclear energy. It is not designed to he a scare tactic according to OCNR chairman Paul Carroll who sa,.t +h..' repos t is the first criticism of nuclear power prepared by an independent group in Canada. Carroll said the report does not delve into aIternative.S for producing energy and con- ceded that when one suggests the present system he abolished one should offer a replacement. He said the OCNR clearly recognizes that responsibility but added that the report issued .Friday concerns itself solely with problems of nuclear energy and 'duc4 suggest thtii"if`Thi nuclear program was abolished or reduced other energy sources could' he further explored. Public safety from hazards of nuclear energy should be made the responsihility.of an independant group according to the report. It claims that "nuclear reactor safety review and licensing should he made the responsibility of an organization with public safety. aS 'its mole objective. The Atomic Energy Control Board (AECB) has never been autonomous and too often confuses its own ob- jectives with those of the industry it is supposedly regulating" it adds. "With. the budget its given the AECB can't he in- dependent and roust depend on the material it's given by the nuclear, industry," said Carroll. • The report cites as an. example an AE.CB decision not to insist the system of two interdependent shutdow ns be built into the Pickering Nuclear Power Plant even though they are a part of the designs of some of the new plants located in less populated areas. The coalition rif the groups behind the report was formed in 1975 and was funded by the Porter Commission. The commission provided $20,000 toward the research and the principal author in the report is Ralph Torrie-, a physicist who has worked for Atomic Energy of Canada }.incited and Ontario Hydro. The groups forming the coalition are Friends of the Rainbowil,...1G.icc of Women', Manitoulin Safe 'Power Association, Nuclear Action Group. C'ANTDU and HOPE-. Carroll said the members of OCNR plan to meet in Toronto at the end of Sep- tember to decide if they will mock up the report for u demand there be a moratorium on nuclear power- planning in this pro\ ince. He said the report is now just an information document that can he used by anyone in the country wan- ting to petition the govern- ment or Hydro to try to -get nuclear power stopped or ;lowed down. The report accuses Atomic Energy of Canada of not co- operating. with the Atomic Energy Control Board claiming AE('1L, witheld in- formation from the board. The report says two inter- office memos dated July 30 and September 27, 1971 prove the claim and that one, written by an unnamed safety engineer about design strategy says: "None of the above uncertainties are to he mentioned in the official communications." Torrie said that the report niay he scary to some people - hu t eoplebut added that "if talking honestly about nuclear energy is scary that's nut my fault." He said that rine of the problems associated with nuclear energy is that it is coniparedto other industry and that simply can't be done Ho._said nuclear accidents have far more potentially hazardous side effects than accidents in other industry. The report is also critical of the thinking of Hydro towards disposing of nuclear waste. -hor•rie said that one of the hyproduc•ts of nuclear power is plutonium which has a half life of 24,006 years and during that time society has to find ,u ore way to prevent its misuse. No method has been round for disposing of the plutonium. The documents points out the need for government to be more careful who they sell reactors to. It stresses that governments and relations between countries can change quickly pointing to the Quebec crisis as an example. Anyone who has a nuclear reactor can use it to produce plutonium which is needed to construct nuclear weapons," said Torric. The report also points out that terrorist ac- tivity could he fatal to society if a reactor was the target. By crashing a plane or in some other fashion 'sabotaging a, reactor the most catastrophic consequences can come about he said. Ready for emergency Firstaid teams compete in Toronto The Annual St. John Ambulance Provincial Open First Aid Competitions for 1978 will be held on April 29. at Moss Park Armoury, Toronto, W. E. Prentice announced recently. Mr. Prentice, Chairman of St._ John's Competitions Com- mittee said' "We will have, team competitions and a competition for individual First Aiders which ,was so successfully initiated last year w -hen a 13 year old Girl Guide was the Individual Champion." He went -on to say that age limits for team members have been changed in two categories.' 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