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Category Archives: Nuclear Power
Romanians want western help for second CANDU
(August 30, 2002) Export Development Canada (EDC) is negotiating with France’s Société Générale, a private bank, over support for the Cernavoda 2 nuclear plant in Romania. The plant is a Canadian Candu 600 MW reactor which Atomic Energy Canada Ltd. is building in the country. Construction is reportedly about 50 percent complete, but Romania needs another $600 million to finish the plant. Continue reading
Coal industry dealt big blow
(August 20, 2002) As NB Coal dismantles its cutting dragger before it gets shipped to Florida, some people in the Grand Lake area are wondering what happened to a community report on the future of the coal industry in the region. Continue reading
Posted in New Brunswick Power
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Nuclear meltdown
(August 16, 2002) The meltdown in the stock price of British Energy – down 92% from its peak – demonstrates that nuclear power is not remotely economic. Continue reading
Posted in Energy Probe News, Towards Shutdown
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Pak to set up two more nuclear power plants
(July 12, 2002) KARACHI — In an effort to augment its nuclear power capacity, Pakistan is set to add two more units to its existing nuclear power plants. Continue reading
Reactor safety inspection to be privatized
(July 11, 2002) Ontario Power Generation is negotiating a deal to privatize safety analysis at its nuclear reactors. “We are in negotiations with a company called NNC related to potential business opportunities,” Ontario Power spokesman John Earl said yesterday. “it basically is in regard to a group in OPG that does safety analysis work.” Continue reading
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Weapons-grade uranium available in Canada
(June 28, 2002) Experts in nuclear weapons recognize that by far the most difficult step in building a bomb like the one that destroyed Hiroshima is acquiring sufficient weapons-grade material. Continue reading
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Winter blackouts possible: Energy Probe
(October 25, 2002) “I think Ontario has now got a risk of blackout, possibly as early as this winter,” said Tom Adams, executive director of the industry watchdog group, “but next summer looks very dicey as well.” Continue reading
Week’s events forecast energy’s future
(June 19, 2002) The ties that bind government to energy markets are beginning to loosen. Yesterday in Saint John, Fredericton and Washington, D.C., things happened that will change how New Brunswickers buy, sell and use energy in the years to come. Continue reading
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Lepreau shutdown could cause $70M hit
(June 18, 2002) The economy of Southern New Brunswick would be devastated if the 700 jobs at the Point Lepreau Nuclear plant are elminated, the Public Utilities Board heard Monday. Continue reading
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MDS Nordion has enough enriched uranium for a bomb
(June 9, 2002) Ottawa’s MDS Nordion is creating a tempting target for nuclear terrorists by unnecessarily stockpiling enough highly enriched uranium to build at least one nuclear bomb, says a respected U.S. nuclear watchdog group. Continue reading
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