International
Institute of Concern
for Public Health

Keyword: nuclear waste disposal

Free Release of Radioactive Materials and Aggregate Recycling

December 1, 2011

The growing demands for aggregate materials in Ontario has led governments and aggregate and construction industries to explore various methods...

Not Enough Water?

December 1, 2011

In Niagara Falls, New York, there are areas of nuclear waste contamination including highways and byways. According to a recently...

West Valley Dumpsite Decision

October 30, 2010

A recent decision by the U.S. Department of the Energy (DOE) for only partial cleanup of the West Valley...

Radioactive Steam Generators Transport Raises Concern

October 27, 2010

Through our participation in the Great Lakes United Nuclear Free/Green Energy Task Force, we became aware of information that the...

Statement from Rosalie Bertell to CNSC re steam generators

October 26, 2010

IICPH fully endorses the statements made by Dr. Rosalie Bertell in her letter to the CNSC concerning the proposed granting of a Transportation License to Bruce Power to permit the transport of 16 steam generators made of radioactive contaminated metal through the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence River on the way to Sweden for recycling.

IICPH notes on the CNSC Hearing on Steam Generators

September 28, 2010

Re: Application for a (one-year) licence to package and transport, under special arrangement, 16 steam generators to Sweden.

Specifically, as...

On the Yellowcake Trail, Part 4

April 16, 2010

This series of articles in the Watershed Sentinel tracks all aspects of uranium in Canada from mining and milling, to...

BURNING RADIOACTIVE WASTE:BLIND RIVER AND THE CNSC DECISION

October 1, 2007

March 16, 2007

Shudders went through the frame of the International Institute of Concern for Public Health ( IICPH) when...

Nuclear Waste Legacy

December 1, 2004

You maight not want to swin in the “pools” at our nuclear reactor sites. That is where they store teh...