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From CBCNews: Technology & Science:
Canada's nuclear industry has a problem. And, by extension, so do all Canadians.
Sitting in seven locations across Eastern and Central Canada are more than two million fire-log-sized used nuclear fuel-rod bundles. That's enough to fill six hockey rinks up to the top of the boards.
Even though the bundles are used, they are still radioactive - dangerously, fatally so. And they are going to be that way for the next few hundred thousand years.
If you want to put that in perspective, think about Homo sapiens.Humans have only existed in our present form for about the last 200,000 years. Most of that time was spent running around hunting other animals and gathering nuts and plants in an effort to keep from starving.
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