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CSNC applauds Bruce’s incinerator activities
(February 15, 2005) The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission recently applauded the environmental performance of a radioactive waste incinerator at Ontario Power Generation Inc.’s Bruce nuclear park. Continue reading
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E-dialogue on decision-making under conditions of risk and uncertainty: nuclear waste management
(February 10, 2005) “Unfortunately, in the nuclear field, ‘major international collaboration’ [towards permanent disposal of nuclear waste] usually means that Atomic Energy Canada Limited and their 13 international counterparts in most nuclear jurisdictions on the planet have agreed to something. Often, six faslehoods before breakfast, in my view. This is part of how we’ve spent $1 billion answering the wrong questions – like, ‘If you wanted to dispose of this stuff irretrievably, with no monitoring, getting assurances primarily from computer models, how best to do it?” – Norm Rubin Continue reading
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Security lax for nuclear materials
(December 11, 2004) Imagine the panic if someone spread radioactive material around downtown Toronto. It would be an idea tactic for terrorists aiming to paralyze the city. Continue reading
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Pickering reactor upgrade $100M over budget
(November 16, 2004) Toronto: Ontario Power Generation’s habitual cost overruns on nuclear power plant refurbishment projects are continuing under the Liberals, OPG confirmed yesterday in third-quarter financial results that show efforts to upgrade a second unit at the Pickering A station are as much as $100-million over budget. Continue reading
Ontario warned nuclear repair bill could top $1B
(November 15, 2004) Toronto: The perils of Pickering returned to haunt the Ontario government Monday as Ontario Power Generation warned that its efforts to restore another of the problem-prone nuclear plant’s reactors could end up costing $1 billion. Continue reading
Nuclear waste – burying a problem, or a solution?
(September 18, 2004) In Canada, we are now storing more than 20-million kilos of nuclear waste in pools and concrete storage facilities around our nuclear reactors. If no new reactors are built, when the current reactors are decomissioned, there will be twice that amount. The waste will be lethally radioactive for hundreds of years, and toxic for tens of thousands of years. At the moment, we have no long-term policy for dealing with it. Continue reading
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Restarting Bruce reactors tricky
(September 10, 2004) Critics point to Bruce’s repair needs. Power companies say plant is needed. Continue reading
Pickering backup system to cost OPG $250 million
(August 21, 2004) More than double earlier estimate, reactors worse off than expected. Continue reading
Bruce’s burning secrets
(August 5, 2004) There’s no hint in the cool summer winds blowing off Lake Huron onto the sandy beaches of the lower Bruce Peninsula that nuclear managers have developed plans to turn the shoreline into a vast radioactive waste sacrifice zone. Continue reading
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Federal nuclear firm $160M over budget on new reactors
(March 31, 2004) Toronto: Atomic Energy of Canada Limited’s only domestic project for new reactors is running $160-million over budget and four years behind schedule even as the company is pushing to sell the Ontario government advanced nuclear power plants worth billions of dollars. Continue reading
