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Category Archives: Nuclear Plant Security
Nuclear Liability Act
(June 3, 2009) An Act respecting civil liability for nuclear damage : http://lois.justice.gc.ca/en/N-28/text.html Continue reading
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CNSC Action on Nuclear Security Post 9/11
(Jan. 08, 2009) Prior to September 11th, nuclear facility security requirements in Canada were based on. Continue reading
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CNSC Action on Nuclear Security Post 9/11
(January 8, 2009) Prior to September 11th, nuclear facility security requirements in Canada were based on: international recommendations, modified to account for the Canadian social, cultural, economic and political environment, the Nuclear Safety and Control Act and Nuclear Security Regulations which reflect the threat as assessed by Canadian Security officials Continue reading
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Medical firm sues AECL, Ottawa
(July 10, 2008) Life sciences company MDS Inc. has launced a $1.6 billion lawsuit against Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. and the federal government after a decision to cancel a 12-year-old project to build a new nuclear reactors for producing medical isotopes. Continue reading
AECL’s chances doubted
(Dec. 22, 2007) An industry expert says the recent Chalk River reactor fiasco is raising doubts that Ontario will purchase new nuclear reactors exclusively from Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd., the federal Crown corporation at the centre of the controversy. Continue reading
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AECL’s chances doubted
(December 22, 2007) An industry expert says the recent Chalk River reactor fiasco is raising doubts that Ontario will purchase new nuclear reactors exclusively from Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd., the federal Crown corporation at the centre of the controversy. Continue reading
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Mac’s nuclear reactor ‘just cannot go boom’
(March 31, 2007) If we’re going to have a nuclear reactor in our back yard, McMaster’s unit isn’t so bad. “You’ve got a device that just cannot go boom,” says Tom Adams, executive director of Energy Probe, a consumer and environmental research group. Continue reading
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House Hansard: Session 38:2, April 26, 2006
(April 26, 2006) Mr. Howard Hampton (Kenora-Rainy River): My question is for the Acting Premier. We know that the McGuinty government’s real energy plan is to spend $40 billion on very expensive, unreliable and environmentally risky nuclear power plants. So today, on the 20th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, I believe the McGuinty government owes the people of Ontario some straight answers on nuclear power and the potential risks. Will the McGuinty government make public today any emergency plans, briefing notes or studies in its possession that assess the impact of a potential nuclear disaster on human health, the environment and the economy? Continue reading
Re-defeat the nuclear industry
(January 20, 2005) The federal government, and three provincial governments, are about to sink billions more dollars into another attempt to salvage the nuclear industry, the country’s least economic energy industry – and its most dangerous. Continue reading
Nuclear plants’ scrutiny privatized
(September 9, 2003) The business of inspecting nuclear power plants in Ontario is being sold to the private sector, prompting concerns from industry critics about safety standards. Continue reading
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Energy Probe 