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Levin warns against Canadian nuclear waste repository

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WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP)--   U.S. Sen. Carl Levin has introduced a resolution urging the Obama

administration to oppose a Canadian proposal to bury radioactive waste less than a mile from Lake Huron.

A federal panel in Canada is taking testimony on the plan to store low- and intermediate-level waste from nuclear power plants in rock chambers more than 2,000 feet below the surface.

Ontario Power Generation says the lake would be protected. Opponents say that can't be guaranteed when the material would remain radioactive for thousands of years.

The Michigan Democrat's resolution urges the president and secretary of state to work with their Canadian counterparts to prevent building of a permanent nuclear waste repository within the Great Lakes Basin.

Democratic U.S. Rep. Dan Kildee of Flint is sponsoring the same measure in the House.