Nuclear Safety

Radioactive part was missing at Bruce plant

Lisa — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:08:31 -0400

Ontario is delaying by three months a decision on which company will build a new nuclear plant at Darlington to give bidders -- including Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. -- more time.

A radioactive part was missing for almost two months at the Bruce nuclear plant before a worker walking through an area called "the vault" discovered the problem after his radiation detector went off. read more »

Apocalypse now?

Lisa — Wed, 14 May 2008 10:44:33 -0400

To most of us, the consequences of a meltdown or some other catastrophic accident at a nuclear reactor are unimaginable.

To the companies in the worldwide nuclear industry, and to insurance companies, the consequences are all too imaginable -- they would be wiped out if held responsible for a malfunction that caused hundreds of billions of dollars in damage. Because reactors were not a commercial proposition, decades ago, the corporate world refused to back nuclear power. read more »

The Nuclear Power Baseload Myth

rebecca — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 10:12:01 -0400

MR.RUBIN: Madam Chair, my comments deal with issues concerning nuclear power, and we offer them to urge this Board to do two things: To stipulate and construe the nuclear issues as broadly as possible; and, in particular, to seek mechanisms to ensure that Ontario ratepayers and taxpayers are protected from the peculiar risks presented by nuclear power. read more »

EP's response to OPG's proposed environmental assessment guidelines for new nuclear waste site

rebecca — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 15:12:08 -0400

Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission
Attn: Michael Rinker, Environmental Assessment Specialist
P.O. Box 1046, Station B
Ottawa, ON K1P 5S9
Phone: 1-800-668-5284
Fax: (613) 995-5086
E-mail: ceaainfo@cnsc-ccsn.gc.ca

Re: Comment on the Proposed Scoping Document (Environmental Assessment Guidelines) for Ontario Power Generation's Proposal for a Deep Geologic Repository for disposal of low and intermediate level radioactive wastes in Kincardine.

Dear Mr. Rinker, read more »

EP's response to OPG's proposed environmental assessment guidelines for new nuclear waste site

rebecca — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 17:32:15 -0400

Dear Mr. Rinker, read more »

House Hansard: Session 38:2, April 26, 2006

rebecca — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:57:08 -0400

Oral Questions read more »

Persistent, stealthy nuclear PR

rebecca — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 15:01:55 -0400

Letter to the Editor

The letter "Getting figures wrong: U.N. monitoring committee sees no rise in number of birth defects or leukemia, only in thyroid cancer" published June 6th, was authored by a nuclear industry employee, Andrew Daley. Unfortunately, Mr. Daley failed to identify his affiliation when attempting to argue that the Chernobyl accident only caused 1,800 extra cancers thus far. read more »

Canada's nuclear waste still a problem

rebecca — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 15:15:35 -0400

The Globe and Mail
Letter to the Editor

The Globe's editorial "How to deal safely with nuclear waste" May 26, is overly hasty in declaring nuclear power's problems solved. read more »

Canada's nuclear waste still a problem

rebecca — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 17:42:36 -0400

Letter to the Editor

The Globe's editorial "How to deal safely with nuclear waste" May 26, is overly hasty in declaring nuclear power's problems solved. read more »

Remember the Great Blackout of 2003?

admin — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 11:41:30 -0500

Although the spark that set off that calamity didn't occur in Ontario, we were the hardest hit because our power system had been weakened by neglect. It has only gotten worse in the last two years. The stage is set for another massive blackout, this time made in Ontario. Parts of our power transmission and distribution networks are so dilapidated, a strong wind could knock out some of our electricity lifelines.

Re-defeat the nuclear industry

rebecca — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 15:14:58 -0400

Dear Friend:

The federal government, and three provincial governments, are about to sink billions more dollars into another attempt to salvage the nuclear industry, the country's least economic energy industry – and its most dangerous.

Last month, New Brunswick discovered that its nuclear reactor at Point Lepreau had cracks in its main steam pipe. Cracks in the same piece of equipment at a reactor in Japan just months before had led to an accident that boiled alive four workers and severely scalded seven others. read more »

Expose the truth about the nuclear industry

admin — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 11:44:47 -0500

We have learned that the federal government has quietly begun giving its friends in the nuclear industry new access to the public purse, in order to fund plans for massive nuclear power growth.

Alarm over inexperienced Bruce operator

rebecca — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 09:45:57 -0400

President Linda J. Keen
Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission
280 Slater Street
P.O. Box 1046
Ottawa, Ontario K1P 5S9
Fax: (613) 992-2915 (3 pages)

Dear President Keen,

We would like to comment on three related regulatory matters of great importance - one past, one present, and one future. We believe that each of these matters involves the recognition of an "obvious truth" concerning nuclear-safety regulation. read more »

Nuclear risk: Make 'em pay

rebecca — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 12:53:50 -0500

Nuclear power is absolutely safe, the nuclear industry is fond of saying. Only scaremongers, the ignorant and fools think otherwise, it maintains.

Canadian governments have fallen for the nuclear industry's assurances but, thankfully, Canada's private sector lenders haven't. Knowing that the risk of nuclear contamination is real, and that they could be on the financial hook in the event of radioactive contamination, banks and other private financiers have refused to back nuclear facilities. read more »

Energy Probe's letter to the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission

rebecca — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 16:40:38 -0400

September 6, 2002

Linda J. Keen
President and CEO
Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission

Faxed to: (613) 995-5086

Dear Ms. Keen:

Energy Probe is concerned that the deteriorating financial condition of British Energy could have negative safety implications for the operation of the Bruce Nuclear Power Development. read more »

Weapons-grade uranium available in Canada

rebecca — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 16:57:10 -0400

Dear Concerned Citizen:

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.

Yet a private Canadian multinational, MDS Nordion, has stockpiled almost two nuclear bombs’ worth of the material near Ottawa. And this company is trying to import enough from the U.S. to more than double its stockpile. read more »

Do you trust Canada’s nuclear establishment to safely dispose of its wastes?

rebecca — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 17:57:09 -0400

The nuclear shield

admin — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 11:32:19 -0500

Acts of gross negligence by suppliers of nuclear goods and services – the kind of mistakes that might cause nuclear reactors to explode – will no longer be protected from liability under a proposed law that passed first reading in the House of Commons last month. read more »