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$100-million a year in public funding for CANDU questioned
(January 16, 2002) OTTAWA – Herb Dhaliwal, the federal Minister of Natural Resources, said yesterday a review is underway to determine whether Canadian taxpayers should keep subsidizing the CANDU reactor sales program to the tune of $100-million a year. Mr. Dhaliwal, only hours after taking over the portfolio, said a report will soon be presented to Cabinet to determine whether there are sufficient prospects for future sales of the reactor. Continue reading
Romanian reactor’s faulty environmental assessment
(January 14, 2002) Energy Probe’s Supplementary Comments on Atomic Energy of Canada Limited’s (AECL’s) Cernavoda Reactor 2 Environmental Assessment Summary. Continue reading
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Pickering A slow start
(January 13, 2002) TORONTO – Ontario’s multibillion-dollar effort to refurbish ailing nuclear plants is running years behind schedule and hundreds of millions of dollars over budget, Southam News has learned. Continue reading
EU to finance a nuclear power plant in Romania?
(December 12, 2001) Brussels, Rome: (December 12, 2001): Today a large international coalition of ca. 35 environmental organizations started the campaign “Stop Euratom loan for Cernavoda II.” Continue reading
EDITORIAL: Blocking progress
(November 28, 2001) Why does nuclear power industry still need special liability protection? Continue reading
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AECL cleared to bid for U.K. nuclear stations
(November 3, 2001) Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. has been given a shot at bidding for 10 new nuclear power stations in Britain. Continue reading
Environment, energy watchdogs howl at Bruce Power chief’s new nuke hint
(June 14, 2001) There’s no way another nuclear power plant will be built in Ontario, a Sierra Club of Canada official vowed yesterday after Bruce Power’s chairperson hinted one was in the works. Continue reading
Nuclear liability fallout
(June 12, 2001) The situation in Canada under our Nuclear Liability Act is very significantly worse than the situation in the United States under Price-Anderson. Specifically, Canadian nuclear accident victims can count on $75-million total compensation, while Americans can count on US $9.09-billion. For every dollar U.S. victims could get, we get much less than a penny. Continue reading
GOTHENBURG: The next big Protest?
(May 29, 2001) Brussels, 26th March: Friends of the Earth today released a leaked document prepared by the Commission which is destined to eventually be presented to Finance Ministers to sanction a subsidy for the nuclear power industry. The paper asks for 2 billion Euro for loans to enable more nuclear power plants to be built in Member States, Accession countries and the former Sovient Union. Continue reading
Cernavoda-2, the second CANDU under construction in Romania, is to be completed
(May 23, 2001) A commercial contract has been signed to complete unit two of Romania’s Cernavoda nuclear power plant at a cost of 689 million US dollars. The contract was signed by Romania’s state-owned utility Nuclearelectrica, Canada’s Atomic Energy Corporation (AECL) and Ansaldo of Italy in the presence of dignitaries including Romanian prime minister, Adrian Nastase and the ambassadors of Italy and Canada. Mr. Nastase said earlier this year that completion was “a priority” The “finalisation schedule” covers a period of 54 months with the unit scheduled to achieve first criticality in the 49th month. Nuclearelectrica said on site works would be led by “an integrated management team” including experts from AECL, Ansaldo and Nuclearelectrica. Continue reading
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