As a medical doctor, the…

   As a medical doctor, the best treatment is prevention.  Therefore the province should not extend the licencing of these aging reactors but start their decommission like Quebec is doing with Gentilly 2.

 Refurbishing is extremely expensive an despite reassurances from MPP Glenn Thibeault, Minister of Energy, I am not convinced.  We Ontario Hydro One uses are paying increasing higher amounts and on debt from previous cost overruns and delays in building.

 Iodine tablets should be sent out to a wider area that is down wind.  They made this mistake in Japan, one not giving the iodine that was available and two evacuating circular zones and not zones that were where the wind was blowing, namely onshore at that time.  Thus the primary zone should be 20 km and the secondary zone should be 100 km.

 As children are most vulnerable along with pregnant women and women period, these people should be of the first concern.  KI - potassium iodide should be in all the schools within 20 km.

 Supplies of drinking water should be available for the population at risk.

 One of the problems of the Fukushima disaster was that people were kept in the dark using the reason to not alarm the public.  But this rational actually is the reverse in reality.  People that are not told, worry more due to rumors.  There needs to be open transparent revaluations of these plans.

 As these plans all cost money, this money should come from the industry involved, namely the nuclear power plants and not the government = citizens.  Nuclear Power plants need to take out liability insurance on the scale of Fukushima and Chernobyl and this cost be born by industry. Physicians for Global Survival and the North American side of IPPNW endorse the "Call for Public Safety".

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