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Category Archives: Nuclear Power
Completing the Cernavoda-2 Reactor: A Bad Risk for Canada
(March 1, 1999) Twenty-five years ago, the former Ceaucescu regime had plans for 15 to 20 CANDU reactors. However, forced labour was used on the Cernavoda nuclear station, and faulty construction and manufacturing were widespread. After Ceaucescu was deposed in 1989, much of the nuclear infrastructure in Romania was dissolved, and only one reactor was completed. The first CANDU reactor at Cernavoda went into operation in December 1996 — about 20 years after the first agreement betweeen Canada and Romania was signed. Continue reading
Premier says NB Power not for sale
(February 25, 1999) Fredericton (CP) — Premier Camille Theriault says New Brunswick will hang on to its debt-ridden power utility despite the fact its future is still under study and a growing body of opinion that at least part should be sold. Continue reading
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Costly cleanup could sink industry
(February 20, 1999) Canada’s nuclear industry risks running short of cash for the $11-billion job of disposing of its nuclear waste, a federal cabinet memo says. Continue reading
No consensus on nuclear waste
(December 4, 1998) Neville Nankivell’s “Nuclear waste becoming hot issue” (November 26) brings much-needed attention to the important issue of nuclear waste, and the crucial decision now facing the federal government. Most vividly and sympathetically, he presents the “disgruntlement” of Canada’s nuclear industry over recent setbacks. Continue reading
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NB Power jobs on the line
(November 18, 1998) Fredericton – Jobs losses are imminent whether New Brunswick overhauls NB Power or not – it is just a question of who will be left unemployed. Continue reading
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NB coal is worse
(November 13, 1998) Fred McMahon’s overwhelming economic and environmental arguments (Time to pay off the miners in Cape Breton, Nov. 10) to eliminate subsidies sustaining the coal industry in Cape Breton apply with equal force to the coal industry in New Brunswick. Continue reading
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NB Power’s dilemma
(November 11, 1998) Fredericton – NB Power can’t move further into the North American energy market until the provincial government sets the rules for deregulating the industry in New Brunswick, say executives at the provincially owned utility. Continue reading
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Letter to the editor sent to New Brunswick newspapers
(October 26, 1998) New Brunswick’s big decision on the best methods to bring natural gas to energy users in the province provides an historic opportunity to benefit consumers and the environment. Natural gas distribution systems should be expanded in the province as rapidly as possible, consistent with maintaining the profitability of all investments. Continue reading
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Hold the extras
(October 1, 1998) “My train reached the Danube at Cernavoda, a name that sounds ominously similar to Chernobyl. Here, in one of the world’s most unstable earthquake zones, Ceausescu had decided to build Romania’s first power station.” Continue reading
Quake-up call
(October 1, 1998) Will tremors like the one last week make us rue the day we built nuclear reactors atop an earthquake zone? Think of a toy snowdome. In the middle is a nuclear plant. Pick it up. Shak it a bit. Drop it. Meltdown. Continue reading
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