Ontario Power Generation (OPG) met with stakeholders to update them on their plan to bury low and intermediate nuclear waste along the shores of Lake Huron in Kincardine.
Federal Environment Minister Catherine McKenna has ordered OPG to study other sites.
Port Elgin resident John Mann was at the meeting in Toronto, where he says OPG told stakeholders there was no need to study other sites because it would be too risky and costly to ship the waste off site.
Mann says that puts into question plans for a second nuclear waste burial site to be built somewhere else for high level spent nuclear fuel.
The Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO) is looking at several Ontario locations to build a second Deep Geologic Repository for spent nuclear fuel including Central Huron, Huron Kinloss and South Bruce.
Mann says if it is too dangerous to ship low and medium level nuclear waste, then how will the Nuclear Waste Management Organization ever get approval to ship high level nuclear spent fuel to another repository location .
All low, medium, and high level nuclear waste is currently stored at a surface level nuclear waste management facility in Kincardine.
Brockton Council was told during an OPG update last night that the waste management facility receives 3-7 shipments of nuclear waste every week from Pickering and Darlington nuclear stations.
Mann adds there is no urgency to bury low level waste while the spent nuclear fuel sits on the surface for decades to come until a site is found for it.
He suggests the Kincardine nuclear waste burial site is a Trojan Horse, and down the road officials will decide there is no urgency to bury the clothes that nuclear workers wear so they'll put the spent fuel in the Kincardine DGR instead.
He says billions of dollars are being wasted on an unnecessary 2-track 2-DGR system that could become one by just adjusting the regulations.
He says all Kincardine has to do is vote to allow the spent fuel to be stored there or the Nuclear Waste Management Organization could find the best site, and then the low and medium level nuclear waste could go in there with the fuel.
He says having two sites, threatens two different environments, requires double the security, and duplicate DGRs.