Hot kitchenware ordered out of town
A shipment of radioactive kitchen utensils from India, brought here by a Korean shipping company, has been ordered out of the Port of Montreal where it’s been sitting since May. There’s some chance it was contaminated in India by a decommissioned radiological device made in Canada in 1968. Where the material will be sent now is anyone’s guess. There’s really nowhere safe to put radioactive garbage.
Tux 08:26 on 2012/10/15 Permalink
Doesn’t Canada have nuclear waste disposal sites, like the WIPP in the United States?
Kate 09:01 on 2012/10/15 Permalink
This is what I find on that topic.
Blork 11:33 on 2012/10/15 Permalink
I think it’s less an issue of whether or not Canada can dispose of it as it’s an issue of who is responsible for PAYING for the disposal.
Kate 18:53 on 2012/10/15 Permalink
Point. The nature of globalization and modern shipping means the trail of who owns a shipment, where it’s going and who’s responsible for it can be impenetrable.