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Darlington Refurbishment: Risk Issues Require Greater Attention

Publication | May 29, 2014 at 7:30

The Ontario government directed Ontario Power Generation (OPG) last year to start rebuilding reactors at the Darlington nuclear station beginning in 2016.

Canadian-made nuclear reactor too dangerous

Feature story | November 30, 2008 at 17:00

The new report commissioned by Greenpeace warns that Canada’s CANDU-6 nuclear reactor, designed by Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL) in the 1970s, is unsafe and too dangerous to build according to modern regulatory standards.

New Reactors Won't Get Cheaper

Blog entry by sstensil | June 28, 2010

A year ago today the nuclear lobby’s “affordable” power charade was exposed.  Admitting that the price tag for new reactors was “billions” of dollars too high, the Ontario government suspended its purchase of new reactors.  Canada’s...

Energy Revolution: A Reactor Becomes a Solar Farm

Blog entry by Shawn Patrick Stensil | July 30, 2009

A nuclear power station in Austria now uses clean, safe nuclear energy -- the sun! Greenpeace isn’t usually invited to hang banners from nuclear stations, but the Austrians asked us to do just that.  And how could we refuse?  It...

Green Energy Act or Greenwash? We’ll Know Next Month

Blog entry by Shawn Patrick Stensil | May 14, 2009 3 comments

Ontario just passed its much-hyped Green Energy Act. This could be an historic moment for green energy in Ontario or it could be an empty gesture by a government that wants to be perceived as green.  We’ll  know next month when the...

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