MacDonald Laurier Institute: 'The safety concerns of nuclear-hesitant environmentalists have never been grounded in reality. From mining to milling to power generation, all the way to waste management, the industry is incredibly well-regulated and remarkably effective in accident prevention. Indeed, nuclear power is much like air travel: the fear of accidents is not tied to the sterling safety record of the industry overall.
'Enter Canada. The world’s richest uranium deposits are found in the Athabasca basin of northern Saskatchewan, an area the size of Iceland populated primarily by Dene people. The crown jewel is the Cigar Lake mine, 700 km north of Saskatoon, which is not only the highest-grade uranium mine in the world at an astonishing U3O8 concentration of 15.9 per cent, but also the most valuable mine on the planet, by tonne of ore, for any metal. In total there are five uranium operations and about a dozen exploration companies in the region. (Just a few hundred kilometres west is the Athabasca oil sands and its 167 billion barrels of oil, making the region one of the most globally significant in an energy hungry world)...'
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