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Category Archives: Nuclear Power
Ontario Hydro Meltdown
(August 25, 1997) Carl Andognini gives his diamond pinky ring a fiddle and offers a thin smile. A very thin smile. He has just come from yet another meeting with a crowd of ONTARIO HYDRO staffers in the mega-corporation’s mirrored headquarters in downtown Toronto. He has had 40 such meetings “around the system,” as he says, since landing a bombshell report in the lap of the utility’s board of directors last week. Continue reading
CANDU Flawed
(August 25, 1997) In the belly of the nuclear beast, the massive domes of the reactors rise ominously to a height of more than 45 m, their radioactive interiors visible only through the thick windows of airlocks. One level up at Ontario Hydro’s sprawling Pickering station, 40 km east of Toronto, steam-driven turbines crouch under an array of blue, green and yellow pipes. Continue reading
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Energy Probe’s Sept 1997 Submission to US Dept. of Energy
(August 17, 1997) I am writing on behalf of Energy Probe concerning the “Parallex Project”, which involves the fabrication of weapons-grade plutonium into reactor fuel (“MOX”) at Los Alamos, and transport of said fuel to Chalk River, Ontario, for testing in an experimental reactor. We understand that the “test burn” is a precursor for the possible eventual large-scale importation of plutonium MOX fuel for use in CANDU nuclear reactors over a period of two or three decades. In particular, we refer to the preliminary Environmental Assessment prepared by the U.S. Department of Energy on the Parallex Project. Continue reading
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CANDU falls on hard times
(August 14, 1997) Problems have plagued Ontario’s nuclear program. CANDU, Canada’s much-touted nuclear power generator, has long been advertised as the best in the world. But it has falled on hard times in Ontario. Continue reading
Ottawa skips reactor advice
(August 11, 1997) Warnings about environmental impact ignored in Candu sale to China, documents show. The federal government ignored its own consultants’ warnings about the need for environmental studies when it signed a contract to sell nuclear reactors to China last November. Continue reading
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Update on the Ontario select committee on Ontario Hydro nuclear affairs
(October 21, 1997) Energy Probe, a national environmental and consumer advocacy organization, presented its five recommendations to the Ontario Select Committee on Ontario Hydro Nuclear Affairs yesterday evening. Continue reading
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NB Power president refuses to debate environmentalist on future of nuclear power in New Brunswick
(June 30, 1997) NB Power refused today to provide a company representative to appear on the CBC television program “Focal Point” to debate the future of the province’s nuclear program with Thomas Adams, Executive Director of the national environmental and consumer watchdog Energy Probe. Continue reading
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Lepreau’s Lament
(June 20, 1997) Can NB Power count on its aging nuclear plant for power well into the future? The utility thinks so, but a spokesman for a watchdog agency has doubts: Continue reading
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What’s acceptable to nuclear industry shouldn’t be to us
(June 9, 1997) As in most of his writing, and on his Web page, Jeremy Whitlock’s letter (June 4) is a mixed bag: a handful of quasi-religious nuclear-industry “perspective” and a pinch of downright falsehood. Continue reading
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Energy Probe declares victory as NB Power discontinues libel suit
(May 30, 1997) In a letter dated May 23 and received today, counsel for NB Power, Marc Bosse, announced it was discontinuing its liable action against Energy Probe and Tom Adams. Continue reading
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