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Category Archives: Nuclear Power
N.B. hoping for at least $400 million from Ottawa to fix nuclear plant
(February 25, 2005) Fredericton: The New Brunswick government is looking for a major cash infusion from Ottawa for refurbishment of the aging nuclear power plant at Point Lepreau, N.B. 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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E-dialogue on decision-making under conditions of risk and uncertainty: nuclear waste management
(February 10, 2005) “Unfortunately, in the nuclear field, ‘major international collaboration’ [towards permanent disposal of nuclear waste] usually means that Atomic Energy Canada Limited and their 13 international counterparts in most nuclear jurisdictions on the planet have agreed to something. Often, six faslehoods before breakfast, in my view. This is part of how we’ve spent $1 billion answering the wrong questions – like, ‘If you wanted to dispose of this stuff irretrievably, with no monitoring, getting assurances primarily from computer models, how best to do it?” – Norm Rubin 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
New nuke sinkholes
(January 14, 2005) Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL) has cost federal taxpayers an estimated $17-billion in failed attempts to develop commercially viable nuclear reactors. Even the sales that AECL has made have proven to be wildly unprofitable, going back a generation to its perplexing reactor sale to Argentina, when AECL agreed to price its contract in pesos. Today, the federal Crown corporation is poised to blow more billions. Continue reading
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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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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
Proposed power plant may kill plan to fix Lepreau
(October 29, 2004) A decision on whether to dump or fix up New Brunswick’s aging nuclear power plant could be swayed by a private firm’s plans to build a giant gas-fired generator, says the province’s energy minister. 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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