Port Hope: A Question Of Power

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Sheila Petzold
Canada, documentary, 2005
43 mins. (Digi Beta)

Port Hope, Ontario has been struggling for decades with serious Environmental hazard: thousands of tons of radioactive water. When the industry that created the problem announces plans to produce a new enriched fuel in town for Canada's Nuclear revival, some people raise questions about health and security risks. They take on the company, the industry, their own town council and federal regulators toward a classic "David and Goliath" showdown and a surprising conclusion.