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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
More delays plague Pickering restart
(February 6, 2004) Work on two units of the Pickering A nuclear station has been suspended, according to a message sent to staff of the plant, owned by Ontario Power Generation Inc. Continue reading
Candus can’t do it, nuke critics say
(January 2, 2004) Critics of nuclear power said a $12 billion proposal by Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. to build eight new nuclear reactors in Ontario to generate electricity has little credibility, given the nuclear industry’s track record. Continue reading
New nukes – or none?
(December 7, 2003) For Jerry Hopwood, the Wigan Coalfield served as a sobering lesson about the cost of man’s need for energy. During his youth, in the 50s and 60s, in Manchester, England, Hopwood witnessed its ravages first-hand. “I grew up around coal mines and coal dust, and people dying of silicosis and mine accidents,” he says. “That coalfield was just coming to the end of its life, and people realized that this was a very difficult way to make energy.” After graduating from university with a master’s in applied physics from Oxford, he decided he wanted to be part of the solution. Continue reading
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