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Lepreau deal will be safe: minister
(March 5, 2002) Natural Resources Minister Jeannot Volpé expects NB Power to learn from Ontario Hydro’s experience, should it be given approval to refit the Point Lepreau nuclear generating station. Continue reading
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Feds and Ontario bid for nuclear mega-project
Taxpayer-funded bid for proposed $12 billion fusion reactor project re-ignites nuclear controversy
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Greens Grab Web Site Under Iter Canada’s Nose
A feisty Sierra Club of Canada has pulled off a cyber-prank aimed at highlighting its opposition to Canada.s ambitions to join the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (Iter) project. A private-sector corporation, Iter Canada, with official encouragement, is trying to attract the fusion energy project to the site of the 3,740 MW Darlington nuclear station, owned by Ontario Power Generation Inc. on Lake Ontario, 50 miles east of Toronto.
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Weapons-grade uranium available in Canada
Dear Concerned Citizen:
Experts in nuclear weapons recognize that by far the most difficult step in building a bomb like the one that destroyed Hiroshima is acquiring sufficient weapons-grade material.
Yet a private Canadian multinational, MDS Nordion, has stockpiled almost two nuclear bombs’ worth of the material near Ottawa. And this company is trying to import enough from the U.S. to more than double its stockpile.
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Ontario Hydro mothballed four unsafe Pickering reactors. Now the company wants to restart them.
In December 1997, Ontario Hydro mothballed its oldest nuclear station – the four reactors called Pickering A. Now, hoping against hope that these retired nuclear reactors can make a safe and lucrative comeback, Ontario Hydro’s successor corporation, Ontario Power Generation, wants the federal nuclear safety regulator, the Atomic Energy Control Board (AECB), to approve restarting them.
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Ontario power generation makes draft EA available
Ontario Power Generation is now making draft chapters of the Environmental Assessment Study (EA) for the return to service of the Pickering A units available for advance public review and comment. In December, OPG will distribute the remaining draft chapters of the EA Report for advance public review and comment, prior to formal submission of a completed draft EA Report to the AECB in January.
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Pickering nuclear plant to reopen
Nuclear regulators have given the green light for the restart of the Pickering A nuclear station, the oldest atomic-power plant in the country, idled since 1997 because of financial, safety and environmental concerns.
The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission said yesterday that it will allow the reopening of the station on the eastern outskirts of Toronto pending the completion of a series of equipment upgrades.
The decision delighted officials of the station’s owner, Ontario Power Generation, but it dismayed antinuclear activists.
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Nuclear fallout
Years after U.S. experts made recommendations to fix the province’s nuclear power stations, most remain idle.
Please see Tom Adams’ response: Safety deficiencies caused reactor shutdown
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Tories failed to heed warnings, critics say
Ontario’s former Conservative government was warned loudly and often of the inherent problems facing Pickering A more than six years ago and failed to act, critics say.
Tom Adams of Energy Probe, the energy industry watchdog, said former Tory energy minister Jim Wilson and Bill Farlinger, Ontario Power Generation board chair, both knew that a "nuclear cult" had taken over the giant company and was out of control, making irrational spending decisions in the company’s nuclear division.
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Spending habits go far back
The only surprise is that people are so shocked by yesterday’s damning report on the Pickering nuclear station.
As far back as 1916, experts issued warnings about the potential for huge cost overruns and management troubles at the crown corporation that generates most of Ontario’s electricity.
Repairs to four units at Pickering will cost about $4 billion instead of the $780 million originally forecast, and the job may not be completed until 2008 – six years behind schedule, says the report, by former federal energy minister Jake Epp.
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