In 1991, the Campaign for Nuclear Phaseout played a key role in fostering Parliamentary debate on nuclear issues through the inroduction of Bill C-204 -- a piece of legislation that would have ended all licensing of new nuclear power reactors in Canada for a period of fifty years, without affecting those already in operation. One of the arguments used by the industry against the Bill was that, if approved, the legislation would hurt nuclear medicine and scientific research, by eliminating an important source of radioactive isotopes (some of which -- notably cobalt-60 -- are produced in Ontario Hydros nuclear reactors). But this argument is fallacious, as the following document explains. (See the Annex for a chronological account of a related controversy -- the SLOWPOKE controversy -- including comments from a number of independent people in the field of nuclear physics and nuclear medicine.)
Posted on: Mon, 25 Aug 2014 14:17:52 +0000
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