The Mohawk Council of Akwesasne is opposing a shipment of nuclear waste through the St. Lawrence Seaway.

The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission is considering a request to allow 16 decommissioned 100-ton radioactive steam generators to pass through the seaway. The Mohawks say the shipment puts the environment, health and safety at risk."

"It just opens the door; what's to prevent future shipments of larger amounts of the nuclear waste?" Elizabeth F. Nanticoke, the council's acting environmental science director, told The Watertown Daily Times.

The public comment period on the request closed at the end of September.

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Tribe opposes nuclear shipment (The Watertown Daily Times 10/4)