• The government should…

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• The government should publish modelling on the

impacts of a Fukushima-scale accident beforeit

providesfinal approval forits planto continue

operating Pickering in2018.

• The government should develop the capacity to

independently model nuclear accidentsin order to

ensure the ongoing adequacy of offsite plans.

• The government should require provincial and

municipal authorities to inform residents and

businesses in the 50 km Secondary Zone of the

availability of potassium iodide and thedesirability

of including it in their home or institutional

emergencykit.

• The government needs to require those

authorities to conduct detailed planningto ensure

thatevacuation can effectively be carried out in

the fullnewly proposed contingency planning zone

as well as into the Secondary Zone, especially for

vulnerable communities.

• The government should study and publish

modelling of drinking water sourcecontamination

in the areas around the Bruce, Darlington and

Pickering nuclear plants in theevent of a major

accident, examine appropriate response

measures, and develop a plan to ensure that

contingency drinking water supplies will be

available in the caseof such an accident.

• The government should use its drinking water

protection jurisdictionto ensure that the Great

Lakes and other sources of water are protected by

requiring contingencyplans including

contaminated water storage and isolation.

• The government needs to study and propose

guidelines for land recovery and return before

2018, when the Pickering Nuclear Generating

Stationis due for another federal safety licensing

review.

• The government should ensure all meetings and

consultations with industry on nuclear emergency

matters canbe scrutinized by the public.

• A revised nuclear emergency plan should make

public consultation and pro-activedisclosure

mandatory on a rigorousand regular schedule,

with updated information including population

density and land use.

[Original Comment ID: 210471]