[Newsbot]

Title: Ontario not making plans to replace nuclear power
Category: Misc CDN
Posted By: stemmer
Date: 2011-03-15 08:23:15
Canadian

[mikewood86]

Yay! A government with balls! Finally someone who will think long term instead of by the minute like the media conditions most of these half wits.

[Brenda]

I remember something about nuclear powerplants being shut down and cancer patients without a treatment...

[PostFactum]

Nuclear power is like a good dog, if you feed him, give comfortable conditions and take care - he's your friend. But if not, you can be bitten.

[DrCaleb]

Brenda Brenda:

I remember something about nuclear powerplants being shut down and cancer patients without a treatment...

Different kind of nuclear plant. It generates power as a byproduct of producing medical isotopes. Medical Isotopes being it's primary function.

[PublicAnimalNo9]

I'm within a few miles of 2 separate facilities..wheeeee

[DanSC]

I'm guessing the Ontario plants are NOT in danger of being flooded by a tsunami. There is no reason for Ontario to replace them.

EDIT: Added the NOT. My copy editor is earning his keep today.

[PublicAnimalNo9]

DanSC DanSC:

I'm guessing the Ontario plants are in danger of being flooded by a tsunami. There is no reason for Ontario to replace them.

I was actually having fun with it. The fact I essentially live between 2 separate facilities really doesn't give me much pause.
However, replacing old technology wouldn't exactly be a stupid idea.

[QBall]

$1:

On Tuesday, New Democrat Environmental critic Peter Tabuns called for the Ontario government to halt construction on the facility amid safety concerns and cost increases.

Sure, we can just build a conventional one and fuel it with NDP bullshit. We could fuel it for centuries.

[DrCaleb]

QBall QBall:

$1:

On Tuesday, New Democrat Environmental critic Peter Tabuns called for the Ontario government to halt construction on the facility amid safety concerns and cost increases.

Sure, we can just build a conventional one and fuel it with NDP bullshit. We could fuel it for centuries.

And rainbows. Don't forget the rainbows.

[scarecrowe]

More people have died while falling into the Niagara River gorge while visiting the falls than in any North American nuclear accident.

The Pickering nuclear plant is shutting down in 2020 no matter what. That is in 9 years. It takes 10 years to build a replacement.

The cost of nuclear electricity is about 2/5ths to 3/5ths that of the subsidized alternatives of wind and solar. Nuclear power is on demand. The alternatives are not.

Ontario is doomed to be only thinking of Richard Florida's concept of the knowledge economy as it will never appear whilst those with low cost power in North America will prosper due to the rapid return of the manufacturing industry from the grips of foreign lands as the cost of transportation of our raw materials grows exponentially in this era of "peak oil".

Fusion power is decades away and there will be a generation or two in Ontario living in a potentially prosperous land with little to do thanks to the myopic thinking by policy makers and an overabundance of those related to Chicken Little.

[ShepherdsDog]

What an utter crock of shit, but this is typical of the NDP. Japan was hit by the 4th largest quake in recorded history and then a huge tsunami swamped the area. None of these are probable in Ontario. Nuclear energy is the cleanest, most cost effective form of energy possible that causes the least impact on the environment(hydro causes more damage by damming rivers and flooding land). If the NDP was serious about lowering our carbon footprint( )
they'd be pushing for more reactors.

[Spaniard]

Quake shakes Quebec, Ontario 5.0-magnitude tremor damages Quebec town.
Last Updated: Wednesday, June 23, 2010

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/s ... quake.html

Earthquakes in Ontario rare but not unexpected.
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article ... unexpected


Durham nuclear plants built to withstand earthquakes, experts say.

Mar 15, 2011 - 02:01 PM

Reka Szekely

DURHAM -- As Japan scrambles to deal with a massive nuclear emergency in the wake of a powerful earthquake and tsunami, the question being asked is, could it happen in Durham?

There are two facets to the question: one, whether a similar earthquake could occur in Ontario and the other, whether local nuclear plants can withstand earthquakes.

Ontario Power Generation's Glenn Jager, vice-president of Pickering "A", explains there are many features in the Pickering plant's design that allows it stand up to earthquakes.

"Basically from the foundation on up, it's designed to withstand the seismic loading you would get in this area," he said.

http://www.newsdurhamregion.com/news/article/173473


Think Its time to make New Inuit friends on Facebook just in case

[ShepherdsDog]

You do understand the difference in magnitude between a 5.0(so extremely rare in Canada as to be a non issue) and a 9.0, don't you? The reactors were designed to withstand a 7 and they held out to 9. It was the tsunami, something neither Quebec or Ontario plants have to worry about, that knocked out the generators that should have kept the pumps working.

[herbie]

We have an unused hollowed-out mountain in northern BC. Earthquakes, tsunamis, whatever.
Even owned by an Aluminum company that seems more intent on power sales than making aluminum.