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OTTAWA. (UPC) = ‘Federally
. owned -Eldorado Nuclear
_ Ltd., ‘announced ‘Monday. it
will construct a new uranium
‘refinery near Port. Hope, .
Ont., . rejecting: two. other
Possible locations _ “in” the
i “Province.

. “Following a ‘full r review roof”
the. project,.. ‘the «federal
cabinet: has confirmed: the
decision of, Eldorado’s-‘board™
‘of directors’ to proceed with,

-~the. Project, ”
corporation... said
statement.” ans

“.“The new " refinery | will:
help -the company increase -
its share of the world market
- for uranium fuels and ~ill
‘meet Canada’s. objective of
processing, uranium:from all
Canadian mines as. much as .
possible... before - export, ".
Eldorado: said. _ 7

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~ Company spo esman.
David. Smith said Eldorado’
had so fgr. spent $12’ million -
‘on preparations for the .
refinery — mainly studies of
the three proposed Ontario.
Sites — and hoped to begin’
construction late ..next
winter.

“We. anticipate - spending ©

but we have not been able to
do.a detailed cost estimate
until a. site was chosen,” -
Smith “said. - Commercial
, production. ‘was expected to
begin in 1982.

the Crown ”
in’ ‘a *

“was. “the: most economic of .
- the three locations studied ©

---at-least-another-$100-million- -Those — conditions;

. first proposal, Port Hope

surveyed its citizens last year.
and began | ‘@ Campaign: to |
tax-
‘producing facilities and the |
«350 ‘construction jobs..and.
‘200 permanent jobs they

: would provide. . oF

attract the new.

Township,” Smith said.

‘

At. hearings“ into. con-

-struction-at the three'sites— --
‘Port Hope, Blind. River.on -
‘the’ north shore of‘ Lake -~

“It was in the: ‘order of 64
‘per ‘cent of those responding °

_ to that survey that wanted —
" the refinery built in Hope -

Huron, and. Dill Township -
near Sudbury — the public
-gave an “overwhelming ‘ pro’

statement,” he said.

Eldorado said. ‘the Hope. .
-Township “location,
100. kilometers. east

about

Toronto on Lake Ontario,
.frad‘ been’ chosen. because it

by. the commercially
oriented Crown cor-
poration.”

_ The federal environment
department had = earlier
_approved all three sites “if
certain conditions are met.”

‘company said.
Smith emphasized there

‘would be no danger from the
uranium . refining operation,

Plans for a second
Canadian uranium refinery
began in 1974 but Eldorado
ran into strong opposition to
initial proposals for con-
struction at Port “Granby,
also near Port Hope but in a
neighboring township.

After the federal
gqvernment turned down the

SALT Ilis fair —
- US. defense secretary

Senate committee begins study .

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WASHINGTON (UPI) - The

United States will have
; strategic. equality with
sa _ __ Ryssia under SALT II even it
elt “appears, the »{Soviets.
~ Mptants” ‘and the Americans
are “dwarfs,” Defense
Secretary Harold Brown said
Monday.

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“If you have a team of
giants on the one hand and
dwarfs on the other,” he told
the Senate Armed Services

. Committee, “if the dwarfs
are as strong, and as able,
that is not unequal.”

“ Brown's
‘ . referred to oa charge by
SALT II critic Senator
Henry Jackson, the treaty
makes Soviet forces look
like giants, and American
forces look like dwarfs.

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“I believe it (the treaty) is

ms fair and equitable,” Brown
a said. Brown: conceded the
a projected U.S. MX missile
S was smaller than the giant
_ Soviet SS-18 missiles, but he
ae assured the panel it will be as
‘ capable.

of

‘mostly --
technical, would be met, the’

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saying the waste. would
contain “very low level
radiation” that would pose
no threat to public health.

“It was the judgement o of
the environmental. panel .
that those (effects).
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addressed and there would
be no adverse effects,” he
said.

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“I would not trade the
(Soviet) SS-18 missile for the
MX missile,” he said.

“Brown also; hinted’, “the:
“United States might depart |

from its current policy of
saying it would not fire

Minutemen III missiles until:
attack Sovict missiles had hit .

the United States.

“The Soviets will be able
to destroy our ICBM missiles
in our silos, in the carly
1980s,“he told the senators.
“But that assumes our
Minutmen will be in their
silos. They cannot be sure
that will be the case.”

Earlier critics of the treaty

opened committee hearings
on the. pact with sharp
criticism of the proposal.

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