Production Co. Coming to Northwestern Ontario Filming Documentary About Communities Involved In NWMO Process
OntarioNewsNorth.com will be conducting an interview with Underground Sunshine Production in coming weeks (prior to their Northshore visit) if you have questions you’d like us to ask, please leave them below in the comments.
IS NUCLEAR THE SOLUTION TO SOLVING THE ENERGY CRISIS, AND THE ECONOMIC CRISIS?
Nuclear Hope: A documentary about communities who are involved in the NWMO nuclear waste repository project.
Nuclear waste has an incredibly negative stigma attached to it. People are afraid that a nuclear power plant is dangerous, and that living near one will lead to increased chance of cancer, and many live in fear of a reactor meltdown. Like any technology, there are risks, but the majority of what people know about nuclear energy and its waste is based upon public perception, not necessarily fact.
The biggest problem with nuclear energy is the waste. What do you do with dangerous waste material that needs to be sealed away for centuries, and even millennia? There is a new project from the NWMO (Nuclear Waste Management Organization) that is looking for a site to build a new large-scale nuclear waste facility. There are a number of communities that are currently exploring this idea. Some have quickly dismissed it based upon public opinion; others are testing the waters in a fact-finding fashion; and others are actively pursuing it.
Nuclear Hope will be a documentary about these communities, and how they go about making a decision that will affect their home for a very long time. On one hand you will have nuclear waste buried in your back yard, and on the other you will have the incredible economic boost to that community in terms of the jobs that it will create.
This is a subject that is extremely polarizing, with many layers of complexity that may have no correct answer.
Underground Sunshine Production will be in several Northshore communities this August and wants to hear everyone’s opinion on this matter. This is an open call in anyone in the community to share your perspectives, please see the Northern Ontario Calendar for dates/venues in your community during August.
