Category Archives: Nuclear Safety

(November 14, 2007) Acts of gross negligence by suppliers of nuclear goods and services – the kind of mistakes that might cause nuclear reactors to explode – will no longer be protected from liability under a proposed law that passed first reading in the House of Commons last month. Continue reading →

(July 19, 2007) A hole in a radiation containment system at Pickering generating station has not been fixed more than a month after detection, sparking concern Ontario Power Generation is dragging its feet on safety and keeping important information hidden from the public. Continue reading →

(September 22, 2006) Re: Comment on the Proposed Scoping Document (Environmental Assessment Guidelines) for Ontario Power Generation’s Proposal for a Deep Geologic Repository for disposal of low and intermediate level radioactive wastes in Kincardine. Continue reading →

(September 13, 2006) Re: “If we want to help the Third World, let’s promote nuclear power” (Published by the Free Lance-Star, Fredericksburg, Va, on Sept. 13, 2006 – original article appears below) Continue reading →

(June 9, 2006) Our Prime Minister has been telling potential Candu nuclear reactor customers in Asia that “We have never had any problems in the countries we have been operating in.” Our Prime Minister is embarrassingly and shamefully wrong. Continue reading →

(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 →

(January 6, 2006) Tibetan Government-in-exile denounced China’s dumping of nuclear waste in Tibet way back in 1980’s. In 1987 His Holiness the Dalai Lama released the Five Point Peace Plan for Tibet, the fourth point in this plan called for: Continue reading →

(July 27, 2005) Toronto: Government-owned Ontario Power Generation paid more than $3 million to municipalities on the shores of Lake Huron this spring as part of a deal clearing the way for construction of North America’s first deep rock nuclear waste storage facility. Continue reading →