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Category Archives: Nuclear Safety
Uranium deal with China questioned
(July 22, 2005) Beijing: Canada’s potential uranium exports to China are being questioned by environmental and disarmament groups after a Chinese general suggested that Beijing might use nuclear weapons in a war with the United States. Continue reading
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Persistent, stealthy nuclear PR
(June 8, 2005) The letter “Getting figures wrong: U.N. monitoring committee sees no rise in number of birth defects or leukemia, only in thyroid cancer” published June 6th, was authored by a nuclear industry employee, Andrew Daley. Unfortunately, Mr. Daley failed to identify his affiliation when attempting to argue that the Chernobyl accident only caused 1,800 extra cancers thus far. Continue reading
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Canada’s nuclear waste still a problem
(May 30, 2005) The Globe’s editorial “How to deal safely with nuclear waste” May 26, is overly hasty in declaring nuclear power’s problems solved. Continue reading
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Canada’s nuclear waste still a problem
(May 30, 2005) The Globe’s editorial “How to deal safely with nuclear waste” May 26, is overly hasty in declaring nuclear power’s problems solved. Continue reading
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Remember the Great Blackout of 2003?
(March 23, 2005) Although the spark that set off that calamity didn’t occur in Ontario, we were the hardest hit because our power system had been weakened by neglect. It has only gotten worse in the last two years. The stage is set for another massive blackout, this time made in Ontario. Parts of our power transmission and distribution networks are so dilapidated, a strong wind could knock out some of our electricity lifelines. Continue reading
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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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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
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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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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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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