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The Hazards of Uranium
Aboriginal Deaths from World's First
Uranium Mine Reported
[ Nuclear Technology: A Primer ]
[ The Radioactive Legacy of the Nuclear Age [slide show (1 hr) 2007] ]
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Summary of Testimony to the Nunavut Planning Commission (Edwards 2007/06/06) ] [
Ethical Problems Concerning the Use of Depleted
Uranium Weapons (Jan '01) ]
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Depleted Uranium -- Commercial Dross or Military
Gold? (photo) ]
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What are the Radioactive Byproducts of Uranium-238?
(chart) ]
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What Does Alpha Radiation Look Like? (photo +
closeup) ]
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Health Warning Related to Handling Radioactive
Ores (Ottawa '31/32) ]
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Gulf War Veterans and Depleted Uranium (Bertell
99/05) ]
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U.S. Senate testimony affecting atomic
veterans (Bertell 98/04) ]
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Gulf War Syndrome and Depleted Uranium: Rosalie
Bertell ]
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Uranium : A Discussion Guide -- Questions
& Answers ]
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Uranium: Known Facts and Hidden Dangers (Salzburg
address) ]
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Uranium: The Deadliest Metal -- background
article (Edwards 92) ]
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The Use of Canadian Uranium in the First
Atomic Bombs: Verbatim Excerpts ('98) ]
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How Uranium from Great Bear Lake Ended Up in
A-Bombs: A Chronology ('98) ]
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Dene of Great Bear Lake Demand Federal Action on Uranium
Deaths ]
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Findings on Uranium Tailings -- from
Official Documents ]
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Critique of ICRP Radiation Standards:
Rosalie Bertell ]
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Health Dangers of Uranium Mining: B.C. Medical
Association ('80) ]
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Estimating Lung Cancers from Permitted Radon
Exposures (Edwards/78) ]
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Risk Estimates for Health Effects of Alpha
Radiation (Thomas/81) ]
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Map of Uranium Mining Activities in Canada ]
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Uranium Tailings at Elliot Lake (photo) ]
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What are radon progeny (formerly called radon
daughters) ? (chart) ]
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Uranium Refinery at Blind River, Ontario (photo) ]
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A Scale Model of the Blind River Refinery
(photo) ]
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Inside the Blind River Refinery (photo) ]
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Port Radium, NWT, before the discovery of nuclear
fission (1930s) ]
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The first shipment of radium concentrates from Great
Bear Lake (1931) ]
The Dangers of Nuclear Reactors
[ Nuclear Technology: A Primer ]
[ The Radioactive Legacy of the Nuclear Age [slide show (1 hr) 2007] ]
[ Refurbishing Gentilly-2: A Bad Decision for Health (2008/08/21) ]
[ Findings on CANDU Reactor Accidents -- from
Official Documents ]
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A Chernobyl in Canada - it could happen
here (Globe & Mail '86) ]
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Reactor Safety (from Canada's Nuclear Dilemma,
1982) ]
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Reactor hazards in Canada - what's all the fuss
about? (Edwards '78) ]
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Deaths, injuries and property damage from reactor
accidents ('82) ]
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All About Meltdowns -- from the US Rasmussen Report
('74) ]
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Nuclear Power in Quebec (Débat public sur
l'énergie, '95) ]
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Accident Possibilities at Gentilly-2 and Other
CANDUs ]
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A Chernobyl in Quebec? - Letters on the Gentilly
reactor (1986) ]
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Deterioration of Feeder Pipes in CANDU reactors
(Jan '97) ]
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Nuclear Accidents on Military Vessels in Canadian
Ports ]
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Groups oppose use of weapons-grade uranium in Chalk
River reactors ]
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Nuclear Safety Record Shuts Down Ontario
Reactors (NAP) ]
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Ontario Hydro Report: Reactors are ''Minimally
Acceptable'' (July '97) ]
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''Pickering Reactors Unsafe'' -- Durham Nuclear
Awareness (May '97) ]
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Flammable ''Firestops'' Used in CANDU
reactors (May '97) ]
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The Fire at the Brown's Ferry Nuclear Power
Station (1976) ]
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Reactor Accidents at Chalk River -- The Human
Fallout ]
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The Health Hazards of Tritium -- Excerpts from
Source Documents ]
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''No Safe Dose of Radiation'' -- Canadian Nuclear
Authorities (1982) ]
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What does the Core of a CANDU reactor look like? (photo) ]
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Splitting the atom using U-235 or Pu-239 (schematic
animation) ]
[ Nuclear Technology: A Primer ]
[ The Radioactive Legacy of the Nuclear Age [slide show (1 hr) 2007] ]
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Canada and the Bomb: Past and Future (Edwards,
August 98) ]
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Use of Canadian Uranium in the First Atomic
Bombs: Verbatim Excerpts ('98) ]
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How Uranium from Great Bear Lake Ended Up in
A-Bombs: A Chronology ('98) ]
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Canada's Role in the Bomb Programs of US, UK,
France and India: A Chronology ]
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Canada's Historic Role in Britain's Nuclear
Weapons Programme ]
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CCNR Exhibits Filed at the Nanoose
Expropriation Hearings (July/99) ]
Nanoose
Expropriation: NEWS ACCOUNTS AND TESTIMONY:
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Groups oppose use of weapons-grade uranium in Chalk
River reactors ]
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House of Commons ~ Recommendations on Nuclear
Weapons (Dec/98) ]
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Canadian Plutonium Sold For American Bombs 1946-76 ]
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Nuclear explosives using plutonium from a power reactor
(US DOE '97) ]
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Nuclear weapons using plutonium from a power
reactor (US NAS '94) ]
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American Nuclear Weapons Test Used Reactor-Grade
Plutonium (US DOE) ]
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For nuclear explosives, ''All plutonium is good
plutonium'' (Sandia Labs '96) ]
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Statement of the Canadian Network to Abolish
Nuclear Weapons ('98) ]
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Eight ''Foreign Ministers'' Call for the
Abolition of Nuclear Weapons ('98) ]
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International Civilian Leaders : Statement on
Nuclear Weapons (Feb 98) ]
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75 US Bishops Reject the American Policy of
Nuclear Deterrence ('98) ]
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Statement on Nuclear Weapons by International
Generals and Admirals (Dec 96) ]
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The Canberra Commission on the Elimination of Nuclear
Weapons ('96) ]
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Fueling the Nuclear Arms Race -- and How to Stop It
(Edwards '85) ]
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The Peaceful Atom Goes to War: Bomb Makers
Against Plutonium ('78) ]
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Text of the Non-Proliferation Treaty -- Extended
Indefinitely in 1995 ('68) ]
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The United States Nuclear Arsenal in Miniature
(photo) ]
Press Release : The Indian Bomb Tests and Canadian
Accountability
Tritium from CANDU power reactors
aids India's H-bomb capability
Hot-linked background articles
on India's nuclear weapons tests
Canadian Continuing Nuclear
Cooperation with India and Pakistan
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A Map of India's Nuclear Facilities ]
[ Nuclear
Technology: A Primer ]
NEWS STORIES: Ottawa imports weapons
plutonium from US and Russia
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CCNR Fax to Jean Chrétien Regarding Plutonium Imports
(April 1996) ]
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Ottawa tells Canadians fairy tales
about plutonium (Edwards 00) ]
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Why Russia's plutonium should be immobilized
and not burned (BAS 98/06) ]
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MOX Experience -- Plutonium in Canada
(Griffiths, July 1997) ]
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''Do not approve plutonium imports'' ~ CCNR
to Transport Canada (Oct 99) ]
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CCNR's Submission to Transport Canada re. Russian
plutonium (Aug 00) ]
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Comments on AECL Plans for Plutonium from Moscow
(Lyman Aug 00) ]
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AECL must discuss accidental spill of plutonium
dust ~ Transport Canada (Aug'00) ]
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Isn't MOX one way to phase out plutonium? (Aug
00) ]
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Media Release : Groups demand truth on plutonium
airlift plan (Aug 00) ]
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Transport Canada Assurances: ''Plutonium Will
Not Be Flown'' (Nov '99) ]
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Inadequate Regulations for Air Transport of
Plutonium (Lyman '97) ]
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Policing Plutonium: The Civil Liberties Fallout
(Harvard Law 1975) ]
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CELA Legal Opinion: Canadian airlift of plutonium was
illegal (CELA 00/02) ]
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Findings on the Toxicity of Plutonium (Amer. Nuclear
Soc. '97) ]
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How much plutonium does it take to overdose a
person? (AECB/CCNR 00/02) ]
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For nuclear explosives, ''All plutonium is good
plutonium'' (Sandia Labs '96) ]
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Using Weapons-Derived Plutonium to Fuel CANDU
Reactors (AECL '97) ]
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What does ''burning weapons plutonium in nuclear
reactors'' mean? (NAS '94) ]
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Plutonium: Peace or Profits? ~ 3-part series by
the North Bay Nugget (Oct 99) ]
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Ontario is not actively planning to use plutonium
(MOX) fuel (Aug 99) ]
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Foreign Affairs Commmittee recommends against
plutonium imports (Dec/98) ]
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Hot Leftovers from a Cold War -- Plutonium
Imports into Canada (July 99) ]
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1999 EMO Meeting in NS on plutonium transport ~
before it was scrapped ]
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US-Russia Agreement on Plutonium Disposition
(Sept 1 '98) ]
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Which routes (Los Alamos to Chalk River) will U.S.
plutonium shipments take? ]
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March 16, 1998 -- Plutonium : An International
Action Day ]
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''Plutonium, Hell No'' or ''Hello, Plutonium'' (Feb
'98) ]
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CCNR Brief: Plutonium Fuel Shipments, US to
Canada (Sept 17 '97) ]
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US Environmental
Assessment: Plutonium from US to Canada
(Sept 13/97) ]
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Action Alert: Plutonium and Democracy in Canada (May
'97) ]
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NIRS Letter to President Clinton About Plutonium
(Jan. 1997) ]
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CCNR's Position on Plutonium Imports (Sept.
1996) ]
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Nuclear Awareness Project: Keep Plutonium
Out Of Canada (April'96) ]
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Brief on Plutonium Imports by Nuclear Awareness Project
(July'96) ]
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Plutonium Anyone? -- Ploughshares Article by G.
Edwards ('95) ]
[ Nuclear Technology: A Primer ]
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World Plutonium Inventories 1999 (Norris
and Arkin '99) ]
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Findings on Plutonium : both Civilian and
Military ]
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Canadian Plutonium Sold For American Bombs 1946-76 ]
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Canada's Historic Role in the Britain's Nuclear
Weapons Programme ]
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How to make a bomb using plutonium from a power reactor
(US DOE '97) ]
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How to make a bomb using plutonium from a power
reactor (US NAS '94) ]
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American A-Bomb Test Used Reactor-Grade Plutonium
(US DOE) ]
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For nuclear explosives, ''All plutonium is good
plutonium'' (Sandia Labs '96) ]
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Current AECL plans to commercialize
plutonium ('94) ]
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High-Level Radwaste in Canada -- The Plutonium
Agenda ('86) ]
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A Plutonium Economy in Canada? (from Myth of the
Peaceful Atom '83) ]
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Fueling the Nuclear Arms Race -- and How to Stop It
(Edwards '85) ]
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The Peaceful Atom Goes to War: Bomb Makers
Against Plutonium ('78) ]
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What is Reprocessing? Past AECL Plans for Plutonium
('77) ]
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AECL's Master Plan : a plutonium economy in
Canada (AECL '77) ]
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The Flowers Report (UK) : Warnings about the
Plutonium Economy ('76) ]
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How much plutonium does it take to make a bomb?
(photo) ]
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Dr. Theodore Taylor: Plutonium and the Bomb (photo) ]
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Breeding plutonium-239
from uranium-238 (animation) ]
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Nuclear fission using uranium-235 or plutonium-239
(animation) ]
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What Does Radiation from Plutonium Look Like?
(photo + closeup) ]
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The nuclear fuel chain -- including plutonium (flow
chart) ]
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The World's First Plutonium Production Reactor
(photo) ]
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The World's First Large Plutonium
Reprocessing Plant (photo) ]
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How is high-level radioactive liquid waste
cooled? (Flowers, 1976) ]
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Post-Reprocessing High Level Radioactive Liquid
Waste Tanks (photo) ]
High-Level Radioactive Waste
[ Why Geologic Storage Will Not Solve the High-Level Waste Problem [Power-Point 2007] ]
[ The Radioactive Legacy of the Nuclear Age [slide show (1 hr) 2007] ]
[ Following the Path Backward: A Response to
the NWMO Report (Sept. 05) ]
Seaborn
Panel Recommends: Canada Should Not Proceed
to Site Selection
[ Nuclear Technology: A Primer ]
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Panel Report on High Level Waste Disposal
Concept -- Summary ]
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Findings on High Level Radioactive Wastes -- from Official Documents ]
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Reflections on High-Level Radioactive Waste by J.R.R.
Tolkien ]
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CCNR's Summary Argument on High Level Radioactive
Wastes ]
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A Model Brief on High Level Radioactive Wastes ]
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Deficiencies in AECL's
EIS on Radwaste Disposal -- by CCNR ]
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Deficiencies in AECL's
EIS on Radwaste Disposal -- by First Nations ]
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Deficiencies in AECL's
EIS -- Scientific Review Group ]
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What Scientists Still Don't Know About Geologic
Disposal ]
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Nuclear Wastes (from Canada's Nuclear Dilemma,
1982) ]
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''Nuclear Wastes: What, Me Worry?'' (1978 Original) ]
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''Nuclear Wastes: What, Me Worry?'' (1987
Addendum) ]
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High-Level Radwaste in Canada -- The Plutonium
Agenda ('86) ]
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Chippewa First Nation Challenges Dry Storage of High
Level Waste (Nov. 98) ]
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Features of Pickering dry storage facility not
discussed in Bruce EA. (Nov. 98) ]
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211 Radioactive Poisons in 10-year old CANDU Spent
Fuel (chart) ]
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A Selected list of Radioactive Poisons in Spent
Nuclear Fuel (chart) ]
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How toxic is CANDU nuclear waste over 10 million years? (chart) ]
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How toxic is U.S. nuclear fuel waste over 10 million years? (chart) ]
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How is high-level radioactive liquid waste
cooled? ]
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High Level Radioactive Liquid Waste Tanks
(photo) ]
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Nuclear Technology: A Primer ]
[
Appeal re. the Proposed Akkuyu Nuclear Plant in
Turkey (5/98) ]
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CANDU Syndrome: Canada's Bid to sell reactors
to Turkey ('97) ]
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Documents Related to the CANDU Reactor Sale to
China (November '96) ]
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Feeding the Nuclear Dragon: CANDU Exports to China
('95) ]
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Exporting Disaster: The Cost of Selling CANDU
Reactors ('96) ]
Press Release : The Indian Bomb Tests and Canadian
Accountability
FLASH: Tritium from CANDU power
reactors aids India's H-bomb capability
FLASH: Canadian Continuing Nuclear
Cooperation with India and Pakistan
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Nuclear Power in the Third World: An
Analysis ('83) ]
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A Map of India's Nuclear Facilities ]
Other Aspects of the Canadian Nuclear Industry
~ Nuclear Economics ~
[ Nuclear Technology: A Primer ]
[
Nuclear Sunset: Economic Costs of the Canadian Nuclear
Industry ('96) ]
[
1997 Federal Election -- Nuclear Policy Survey (May
'97) ]
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Federal Subsidies to Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd
(Table: Feb '97) ]
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Historical Origins of Canada's Nuclear Liability Act
(Edwards '97) ]
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Nuclear Subsidies: Time To End The Tax Drain
(Edwards '95) ]
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Cost Disadvantages of Expanding Nuclear
Power (Edwards '82) ]
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Canada's Nuclear Dilemma -- J. of Business Admin.
(Edwards '82) ]
[ Nuclear Technology: A Primer ]
[ The Radioactive Legacy of the Nuclear Age [slide show (1 hr) 2007] ]
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Exploding the Nuclear Myths (Edwards, 2001) ]
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Nuclear Medicine, Radio-isotopes and Nuclear Reactors
('91) ]
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Fatal Dose -- Radiation Deaths linked to AECL
Computer Errors ]
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Potential Health Effects of Food Irradiation
(Testimony '87) ]
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Recommendations on Food Irradiation (Commons
Committee '87) ]
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Decommissioning Reactors:
A Growth Industry ]
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Health/Environment Issues Linked to Nuclear -- A:
Radioactivity ]
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Health/Environment Issues Linked to Nuclear -- B:
Health Effects ]
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Health/Environment Issues Linked to Nuclear -- C:
Nuclear Fission ]
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Regulation Forever: Nuclear Canada (Admin. Law
Journal, Orkin '87) ]
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Canada's Nuclear History: The Myth of the Peaceful Atom
(Edwards '83) ]
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What Does the Nuclear Industry Think of CCNR? ]
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The Nuclear Debate: A Metaphorical Framework (Edwards
'78) ]
[
Time to Stop and Think: A Brief to Pierre
Elliot Trudeau ('77) ]
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The Dangers of Nuclear Power: An Open Letter to
Physicists ('72) ]
Non-Nuclear Alternatives
[ Nuclear Technology: A Primer ]
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Nuclear power is not a solution to global
warming. (CNP '97) ]
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Fossil Fuels not needed to replace Ontario's Nuclear
Electricity ]
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The Negawatt Revolution -- Solving the CO2 Problem : by Amory Lovins ]
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Green Energy Conference ~ Final Statement:
"Deadline Now, Lifeline 2000" ]
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The Hard and Soft Energy Paths -- According to
Lovins (2 graphs) ]
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Why Nuclear Power Can't Solve the CO2 Problem (chart) ]
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How 3/4
of US Electricity Can Be Saved by Energy
Efficiency (chart) ]
Picture Gallery
~ Non-Photographic Images ~
[ Nuclear Map of Canada : by G. Edwards and
R. Del Tredici (Aug. '97) ]
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Nuclear Map of Canada (latest): G.
Edwards/R. Del Tredici (Oct. '98) ]
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Which routes (from Los Alamos to Chalk River) will
plutonium shipments take? ]
[
Federal Subsidies to Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd
(table: Feb '97) ]
[
The nuclear fuel chain -- including plutonium
(illustration) ]
[
Breeding plutonium-239
from uranium-238 (animation) ]
[
Nuclear fission using uranium-235 or plutonium-239
(animation) ]
[
The Periodic Table of Elements, with Atomic
Numbers and Mass Numbers (chart) ]
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211 Radioactive Poisons in 10-year old CANDU Spent
Fuel (chart) ]
[
A Selected list of Radioactive Poisons in Spent
Nuclear Fuel (chart) ]
[
How toxic is CANDU nuclear waste over 10 million years? (chart) ]
[
How toxic is U.S. nuclear fuel waste over 10 million years? (chart) ]
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A Map of India's Nuclear Facilities ]
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A Map of Uranium Mining Activities in Canada ]
[
What is the Decay Chain of Uranium-238? (chart) ]
[
What are radon progeny (formerly called radon
daughters) ? (chart) ]
[
The Hard and Soft Energy Paths -- According to
Lovins (2 graphs) ]
[
Why Nuclear Power Can't Solve the CO2 Problem (chart) ]
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How 3/4
of US Electricity Can Be Saved by Energy
Efficiency (chart) ]
Picture Gallery
~ Photographic
Images ~
by Robert Del Tredici
[ How much plutonium does it take to make a bomb?
(photo) ]
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The World's First Plutonium Production Reactor
(photo) ]
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The World's First Large Plutonium
Reprocessing Plant (photo) ]
[
Post-Reprocessing High Level Radioactive Liquid
Waste Tanks (photo) ]
[
The United States Nuclear Arsenal in Miniature
(photo) ]
[
What does the Core of a CANDU reactor look like? (photo) ]
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Uranium Mill Tailings at Elliot Lake (photo) ]
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Uranium Refinery at Blind River, Ontario (photo) ]
[
A Scale Model of the Blind River Refinery
(photo) ]
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Inside the Blind River Refinery (photo) ]
[
Depleted Uranium -- Commercial Dross or Military
Gold? (photo) ]
[
What Does Alpha Radiation Look Like? (photo +
closeup) ]
[
How To Make an H-Bomb (or thermonuclear bomb --
photo) ]
[
Howard Morland: author of ''How To Make
an H-Bomb'' (photo) ]
[
Dr. Theodore Taylor: Plutonium and the Bomb (photo) ]
[
Maisie Shiell and The Power of One (photo) ]
[
Karl Morgan -- The Father of Health Physics
(photo) ]
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Dr. Alice Stewart, Low-Level Radiation, and the
Foetus (photo) ]
[
William Lawless: Whistleblower Extraordinaire
(photo) ]
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Rosalie Bertell: No Immediate Danger? (photo) ]
Picture Gallery
~ Photographic
Images ~
Archival Material
[ How is high-level radioactive liquid waste
cooled? (Flowers, 1976) ]
[
Port Radium, NWT, before the discovery of nuclear
fission (1930s) ]
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The first shipment of radium concentrates from Great
Bear Lake (1931) ]
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