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Nature 389, 118 (11 September 1997) | doi:10.1038/38098

Contaminated water

Lynn Jones1

  1. Concerned Citizens of Renfrew County, PO Box 981, Pembroke, Ontario K8A 7M5, Canada

Some points in your welcome coverage of the radioactive waste water leak from the Chalk River Laboratories of Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL) into the Ottawa River need clarification (Nature 387,747; 1997).For example, the statement that the "Canadian government has ordered a halt to the disposal of liquid waste from Atomic Energy of Canada's main nuclear research site" is only partly correct.