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Bruce Power will have to wait a bit longer to see if it has permission to ship 16 radiation-contaminated steam generators through the Great Lakes and down the St. Lawrence River en route to Sweden.
The company has asked the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission to approve the plan to move the generators from its plant in Tiverton, Ont., on the shores of Lake Huron.
The CNSC had public hearings on the issue at the end of September and was supposed to make a decision by Nov. 11.
On Monday, however, the commission allowed an extra 30 days for 79 recognized interveners — most of whom are against the proposal — to read and comment on new details of the plan that were released Monday. Interveners now have until Nov. 22 to do that.
The extra information released Monday looks at three areas of the controversial plan that many opponents say have not been properly addressed. They include questions about the environmental impact of shipping boilers that contain radioactive material, scenarios for dealing with an accident, and more details about the rules for moving the material through international water.
The change means the commission is unlikely to issue a decision on the project until the end of November or mid-December.