<br><br>To the editor<br>The Globe and Mail:<br><br>Suppose that every nuclear reactor in Ontario
could be built and operated for 40 years without a hitch and then be
dismantled as planned.<br>
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Would that mean they are safe?<br>
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There are two KNOWN risks, which alone should make us afraid to build any more of the things.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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Ontario should announce today a timetable for phasing out nuclear power, as it commendably did with coal.<br>
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Eleanor Grant<br>
Waterloo, Ont.<br><br>