[All] my letter to Globe on nukes

[Eleanor Grant]

To the editor
The Globe and Mail:

Suppose that every nuclear reactor in Ontario could be built and operated
for 40 years without a hitch and then be dismantled as planned.

Would that mean they are safe?

There are two KNOWN risks, which alone should make us afraid to build any
more of the things.

One is that the cost is prohibitive.  We and our grandchildren will be
paying for them forever, through either soaring hydro rates or soaring
debt.  Unlike renewables, nukes have no payback time, only PAY MORE time.

The other known risk is that there is still no way to dispose of the waste.
To keep generating dangerous wastes that our strapped descendants will have
to figure out how to dispose of, is both foolish and unconscionable.

Ontario should announce today a timetable for phasing out nuclear power, as
it commendably did with coal.

Eleanor Grant
Waterloo, Ont.
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