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BWXT's uranium secrets in Toronto

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BWXT's Uranium Secrets in Toronto (image via The West-End Pheonix) BWXT's uranium insurance secrets: According to an e-mail from the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC): "BWXT maintains industrial insurance and this information is considered proprietary" In the Peterborough Examiner, John MacQuarrie, the CEO of BWXT Canada, "We have considered all accident scenarios, including very low probability but potentially serious events, and in all cases the risk to the public and the environment is negligible due to the nature of our operations" https://www.thepeterboroughexaminer.com/opinion-story/9774832-guest-column-bwxt-has-a-track-record-of-safe-operations/ BWXT is seeking a licence renewal that would allow them to have 700,000kgs of uranium powder on site at anytime and they are saying they are insured but won't tell us how and they are basically denying that anything bad can happen. The public should be asking BWXT, the CNSC, MP
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Industry captured regulator: The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission

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The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission, according to York University Environmental Studies Professor Mark Winfield is "The poster child for an industry captured regulator." According to Winfield, there is a revolving door between industry and the regulator, and they are not known to have ever said no to the industry, with the exception of past CNSC president Linda Keen, who was promptly fired after raising concerns about the safety of a nuclear reactor.  Mike Layton, a Toronto City Councillor and member of the Board of Health says he has "huge concerns that the regulator is also the promoter of this, when an industry is its own regulator that is cause for concern." In the above photo by Bob del Tredici the person on the right is Rumina Velshi, CEO and President of the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission.  For seven years before the CNSC Velshi was Director of Planning and Control for the Darlington New Nuclear Project.  According to Velshi, the "bi
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