Transportation of Nuclear Waste

Alternatives are available for reprocessing the spent nuclear waste as is done in some other countries. Reduce, reuse and recycle are important words in today's society. Can it not be applied to this waste? Is it not also a viable option for the nuclear waste repository to be located closer to the nuclear generating stations? Ideally a repository site closer to where the nuclear waste is generated is an overall more economical and safer alternative to transporting on insufficient roads for over 1400 km. Over the last number of years, we have already been seeing increased transport vehicle incidents and deaths on our Trans Canada Highway in northern Ontario because the roads are inadequate, single lane, non-divided, and already at or over capacity. Poor road conditions,  maintenance, inadequate passing lanes, inexperienced transport drivers and severe weather conditions are also factors in the increasing # of accidents and lengthy road closures of the last years. Without reconstruction of the highway to 4-lane, divided, it is disaster waiting to happen.  Travel here has never been as dangerous as it is now .... more deaths and dangerous goods spills are occurring weekly of late.  A twinned and divided Trans Canada Highway would definitely have to be a prerequisite prior to having any thoughts of adding more commercial traffic danger to our inadequate highway and subjecting residents and the environment along the way with the potential threat of exposure to harmful contaminants. Safety on our roads MUST be of prime importance, therefore keeping the hazardous waste off our highways is the "best choice."