In this 360/VR video, Motherboard visits a nuclear waste site near Kincardine, Ontario, on the shores of Lake Huron and a stone’s throw from the Great Lakes. We take you to the incinerators that turn waste into ash, and go inside glowing white rooms where row upon row of massive containers hold high-level nuclear waste—these containers are warm to the touch. Canada is debating what to do with it nuclear waste. Plant operators want to build an underground vault—a deep geological repository (DGR)—in which to stash the low- and intermediate-level waste: stuff like mop heads and machine parts. It would be the first of its kind in Canada if it goes ahead, and in this video, we travel to Kincardine and ask the mayor and local residents their thoughts on hosting a nuclear waste dump.
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