#Radioactivity : Port Hope, Ontario: What lies beneath

Waste Facility Operations Manager, David Boyce, locks the gate leading into the Welcome Waste Management Facility near Port Hope.

Yvonne Berg/FOR THE TORONTO STAR

In mid-November, when the weather was still gorgeous and tourists were still meandering through its picturesque downtown streets, Helen Caldicott sentenced Port Hope to death.

“It's a disaster,” the renowned doctor and anti-nuclear activist told a gathering of Port Hopers and a crush of reporters crammed into a hotel in Oshawa.

The mess can't be cleaned up, Caldicott said flatly of the low-level radioactive waste sprinkled around Port Hope.

“The entire town should be relocated and the Cameco refinery should be shut down.”

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