No. As for safety, very likely this shipment would proceed without danger, I agree, but we're setting a trend here, and remember this: from the beginning of the nuclear age, people have been assured over and over again that nuclear waste will be isolated from the environment of living things. It will be sequestered. It will be stored securely. Now all of a sudden we're talking about recycling nuclear waste. This is very sudden. It wasn't so a few years ago. This is very alarming. We don't recycle bubonic plague, pardon the language. We don't recycle poison ivy. We should not be recycling radioactive waste.
According to Bruce Power:
For example scrap metals which are proven not to be radioactive are recycled. However, much of the waste, and particularly low and intermediate level waste containing radioactivity cannot be recycled for safety and environmental reasons.
That's from Bruce Power giving a presentation to the Saugeen First Nation.
Here is the CNSC in their screening report for the environmental assessment:
Some of the waste is directly recyclable; however, the largest waste quantities are associated with the pressure-tube/calandria tube replacement and the steam generator replacement, since the replaced components cannot be recycled and must be disposed of at the Western Waste Management Facility.
There has been no explanation of this very sharp U-turn in the policy of the CNSC and Bruce Power, and I don't believe the Government of Canada should sit by and let this--