This was alluded to in a news item on CFOS back in December of last year, and seems to be part and parcel of the whole plan to tuck other people's plutonium rolled up where the moon don't shine:

OPG plans to set up 3 seismic monitoring stations near Walkerton and the nuclear plant to measure earthquake activity. OPG Spokesperson Terry Squire says any activity could affect the proposed burial site for low and medium level radioactive waste at Douglas Point.

He says if there is a lot of seismic activity in the area, the Deep Geologic Repository may need some reinforcing or else moved to another location. Squire says this is an area of low seismic activity, adding the 450 million year old rock beneath the Bruce site has survived many climatic and seismic events.

Squire says the seismic information is apart of the environmental assessment for the proposed burial site. The 3 seismic stations will be installed later this year or early next year by the University of Western Ontario and will operate for 5 years. Squire says the stations will increase the knowledge geologists have about the rock beneath the Bruce site.
[ Dec 1: Seismic Monitoring Begins ]

It makes sense. Steal some pristine part of the planet that has withstood 450 million years of being a beautiful ground for a natural bounty, and then bury oodles of raw death beneath its surface thereby ensuring that your species has pissed in the entire swimming pool. Oh, and don't forget the 300-year guarantee, coming as it does from a culture that has trouble honouring 5-year manufacturer warantees and precious few older-than-three-decades companies like those who will be granted the exclusive territory rights to manage the hell hole.

Maybe if we all get up every morning and do our exercises at precisely 7:05 they'll detect the tremor and get spooked. Naw, with profit margins like they're eyeing, they'd probably just conveniently lose that stretch of tape. Computer errors, y'know.

Want to solve the problem of nuclear waste right now? The answer is so very simple, and this includes Dodge's insistance that Ontario 'needs' nuclear power to stay alive: Store all nuclear wastes in the basements of the homes of the shareholders of the power corporations.

Evolution, as we all know, has lots and lots of time to ponder every option and try every possibility, choosing universally the most staggering elegant and efficient solutions to such problems. Nature locates all of its nuclear furnaces 92 million miles from the nearest living thing. There is a reason for that.

As long as millions of people are set up as energy consumers and there is a distribution system that allows easy access to power we will find ways to fill the grid. There is probably no such thing as safe nuclear power but we at least can provide shielded storage and maintain the lowest possible risk in operations.

With automobile exhaust and coal fired plants we have to deal with photochemical smog and the dumping of waste material in clean air is also full of safety risk. Some people live where they cannot escape and human breathing physiology takes a beating. There is no simple burial or fixation or shielding of the waste dumped in air when we release energy or consume it. Nuclear waste is only part of the problem, yes and it will take more than our lifetimes to learn to deal with it. Do we have bigger problems? Yes I think so. Every time we talk of harnessing something we start to evaluate the trade offs. Ethanol, wind power, natural gas, oil, coal and electricity all have debates surrounding them.

I wonder sometimes why so many resources are directed at the end point of a world without nuclear power but that seems to be real debate. Yes storage is the visible problem but there are so many paths to take with energy. Can we ever achieve clean energy supply in the quantities we need and consume every day?

Mafia go to church regularly. Does that make them less sinful human beings?

As far as I am concerned, it is Earth Day every day.

most of us who live here get our power from the bnpd. perhaps everyone who uses power from bnpd should get their own bit of nuclear waste to bury in their back yard. if you consider our community as a collective family, then the proposal to bury waste from the bnpd in our collective back yard may be the 'right' thing to do. however i do not think we should be taking care of garbage from other families; they should take care of their own. if anyone was _really_ serious about opposing nuclear energy, they would 'get off the grid' and not support the activities at bnpd. i do know of one person who has lived 'off the grid' for at least 20 years. he has a small windmill, solar panels, and batteries with a converter that allow him to run his small refrigerator, tv, and computer. he heats and cooks on a wood stove. it is do-able but i am afraid most of us, myself included, are just too lazy to rely on alternative energy sources.
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It must be Dump It In the Bruce Week ... because now we're being told North Bruce Peninsula is clamouring to get its hands on 4,000 yards of contaminated soil trucked up from the site of the new Owen Sound GB-Health Unit (sic), and okay, I'm probably reading this all wrong, but it does scan to me that their reason to choose NBP is because, well, gosh darn it they just have a surplus of pristine natural beauty, and that just ain't rightly natchural:

The Tobermory area is also home to two national parks and is widely celebrated for its natural beauty ... Rydall said the soil would meet the provincial standards for landfill cover material in the landfill site's Certificate of Approval. He said it would be less contaminated than some soil being excavated from the building site. The more dangerous material would be shipped to Sarnia for disposal....
[ Contaminated soil likely to head up peninsula ]

So, now, ok, I'm no high-priced environmental engineering consultantcy so forgive me for asking, and I realize that the cash-strapped NBP landfills could sure use the five-figure sums they'll pocket to take this stuff, but that cash incentive tag really just makes it all the more perplexing because I really can't understand why, if this 'contaminated' soil is so darn safe and profitable too, then why don't the people of Owen Sound just fold it into their gardens and pocket the difference? I mean, it surely is clean enough for topping an admittedly pristine uniquely-natural priceless wilderness preserve, so surely the load is also way above spec for an everyday suburban pesticized fossil-fuel exhaust-fumed petunia bed. Isn't it?

News in the Toronto Star today of a new passive Solar Energy Farm to be built outside of Sarnia, and while large, keep in mind that the panels themselves are a meter or two above the ground opening up over-exposed areas to shade-crops, and note also that with just a hundred of these things and not counting the recent 7% improvement in non-silicon solar-panel energy transfer efficiency and nanoscale coax, just a hundred of these things would replace the entire output of all of our precious Bruce Nuclear's. This ain't hippy science fiction, folks, this is not a drill, this is the real thing, happening now:

Once complete in 2010, the 40-megawatt project, near Sarnia in southwestern Ontario, will be able to supply enough emission-free electricity to power between 10,000 and 15,000 homes on sunny days
[ North America's biggest solar farm set for Ontario - Yahoo! News ]

Consider the vast stretches of too-much-space Canada, mega-hectares of too-much-sun, too-much-sky southern Manitoba and most of Saskatchewan, consider the Aussie project to build a reactor-rivalling solar chimney, and even if you don't count on the inevitable Moore's Laws applicable to technology cost/performance improvements (think 'room temperature superconductor plastics') and even recent breakthroughs in Sandia Z fusion, I'd say the days of needing to permanently poison your planet just to drive a new car every 3 years are rapidly on the wane.

I said 'wane', wayne. Not 'wayne' wane. Just wanted to make that clear.

And as for the obvious next comment, yes, I am aware that this planet is round and that half of it is in darkness for half the day. But donning my Green Eggs hat, I'm also ultra aware that the planet is also spinning, and that optimizing our use of this diurnal motion is 100% blocked by political lack of will and not by any technical means to do so.

But even all that is a pittance of power if you want to wax only just a teeny bit sci-fi for a moment, because there is a secret about space that your teachers didn't tell you, a secret that will cause tomorrow's children to look back on our atomic age the way we regard the quaint age before steam, a secret was dead obvious from the beginning and only just now beginning to dawn on the new generation of astrophysicists: our whole galaxy is fundamentally infused with an unimaginatvely massive electrical current ... and all we need do is reach out and tap into zettawatts of it, for free.

And meanwhile there's the Bruce, anachronistically forgotten, left holding the burning bag of yesteryear's effluence.

You see, it's like this: it is one thing to say a nuclear dumpsite is geologically safe to the best of our current scientific knowledge, but it is quite another to say that our current scientific knowledge is complete and correct. Evidence of absense is not the same as absense of evidence ...

The most expensive public works project in the US was today in disarray after it emerged that a planned giant nuclear dump would be located on a faultline.

Rock samples from deep within Yucca Mountain, in Nevada, showed that the fault runs directly beneath the site where the US federal government planned to store 70,000 tonnes of highly radioactive waste.
[ US nuclear dump plan in danger after seismic shock | Special reports | Guardian Unlimited ]

Of course we all just know our own OPG-sponsored geological survey would be impeccably correct and unquestionably complete, so I don't even know why I bother to mention it.

In other news, and its maybe odd you'd hear it here instead of from your local campaigning Greenie, but Scientific American reports on how new breakthroughs in solar technology can already rival coal-fueled plants, should it matter, if we need it, like, y'know, if the whole toxic-sourced/toxic-waste green clean nuclear thing doesn't pan out.