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Category Archives: Nuclear Power
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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Radioactive part was missing at Bruce plant
(July 26) A radioactive part was missing for almost two months at the Bruce nuclear plant before a worker walking through an area called “the vault” discovered the problem after his radiation detector went off, writes Tyler Hamilton in the Toronto Star. Continue reading
Radioactive part was missing at Bruce plant
(July 26, 2008) A radioactive part was missing for almost two months at the Bruce nuclear plant before a worker walking through an area called “the vault” discovered the problem after his radiation detector went off. Continue reading
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You can’t have your yellowcake and hide it
(July 15, 2008) “The international trade in nuclear materials and technology is inherently and uniquely fraught with long-term hazards to world peace and security.” Continue reading
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
Energy Probe on Focus Ontario
On Saturday, June 21, Norman Rubin of Energy Probe appeared on Global TV’s "Focus Ontario" to discuss the proposed Darlington B new nuclear build with host Sean Mallen and Murray Elston of the Canadian Nuclear Association (CNA).
The appearance in full is captured at the Focus Ontario website, listed here:
www.canada.com/globaltv/ontario/features/focus_ontario/video.html
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Behind the costs at Darlington
Critics of the provincial government’s decision to expand the Darlington nuclear station have zeroed in not on safety or environmental concerns but on potential cost overruns.
The original Darlington plant, completed in 1993, was "wildly overbudget," said Lawrence Solomon of the anti-nuclear Energy Probe, citing an original cost estimate of $2.5 billion and comparing it with the final bill of $14.4 billion.
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Darlington reactors are not really new
Ontario’s Liberal government will soon announce the construction of new nuclear reactors, likely at the site of the existing reactors at the Darlington A station near Toronto. If history is any judge, the construction of those reactors will not be smooth, and may not happen at all.
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Carbo-charged nuclear
(May 21, 2008) Nuclear power has been an economic failure, despite being larded with subsidies and shorn of liabilities that face its competitors. Oil price hikes have not made it economic, either. Continue reading
Burning in the dark
(March 14, 2008) Nuclear runs all night, can’t be ramped up in day. After scores of bankruptcies and bailouts, many if not most energy analysts recognize nuclear electricity for what it has been: the single biggest business disaster in history. Continue reading
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