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(October 3, 2003) The Bitor subsidiary of Venezuela’s state oil company PDVSA is negotiating with its foreign clients to increase the price of orimulsion by about 50% to US $45 a ton, a Bitor source told. Continue reading →

(September 24, 2003) An idled reactor at Pickering’s nuclear complex is now running at 70 per cent capacity and will produce full power by the end of the month, Ontario Power Generation Inc. says. Continue reading →

(October 30, 2002) TORONTO — A public inquiry is needed to find out why a nuclear power station being rebuilt east of Toronto is $1 billion over budget and still months from getting back online, Energy Probe said Wednesday. Continue reading →

(October 29, 2002) The cost of bringing the troubled Pickering A nuclear generating station back online has ballooned to $2.5 billion – almost twice its original projected price tag, the chief of Ontario Power Generation Inc. said yesterday. Continue reading →

(October 18, 2002) Mumbai — The Cirus nuclear research reactor at the BARC has been reborn. The refurbishment of the reactor, which is nearly 40 years old, was completed recently after approximately five years, BARC’s reactor group director S.K. Sharma said. Continue reading →

(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 →

(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 →

(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 →

(May 27, 2002) The delay in Ontario Power Generation Inc.’s efforts to bring its troubled Pickering A nuclear plant back into production could have an impact on the supply, reliability and price of hydro in the province, industry watchers say. Continue reading →

(February 1, 2002) Toronto: Leading energy critic Energy Probe has submitted a formal complaint to the federal government over a $390 million loan by Ottawa’s Export Development Corporation (EDC) to the Cernavoda-2 nuclear reactor project by Atomic Energy of Canada Limited in Romania. Continue reading →