Federal judge allows transport of liquid nuclear waste from Ontario

​Shipments of liquid nuclear waste from Canada could start crossing the Peace Bridge.

A U.S. District Court judge in Washington, D.C., ruled Thursday that the U.S. Energy Department satisfied all of its requirements for transporting about 6,000 gallons of the liquid nuclear material from a medical research laboratory in Chalk River, Ont., to a reprocessing facility in Aiken, S.C.

The shipments – an estimated 100 to 150 truckloads over the next four years – could be routed across the Peace Bridge and through downtown Buffalo, according to federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission documents.

The shipments are part of the U.S. effort to repatriate its nuclear material.

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Source: The Buffalo News