In the wake of last week’s federal budget, Canadian newspapers have been publishing a lot of material on the current government’s approach to research and development funding. I am a professional practitioner in this space: over the past half decade I have helped several clients manage R&D in the development of clean hydrocarbon fuel—an area…
Bruce Power, by far Canada’s single largest electricity generating plant, is also the biggest clean energy centre in the western hemisphere. The plant’s eight CANDU nuclear generating units are capable of cranking out 50 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity each year. If generators running on allegedly clean natural gas were to provide 50 billion kWh, they…
The new Japanese prime minister, Shinzo Abe, recently told a television interviewer that he wants to see new nuclear reactors built in Japan. He said that these should be “totally different” from the current ones, which are light water designs of the pressurized-water or boiling-water variety. He should consider the Canadian CANDU. It is totally…
The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC), Canada’s nuclear regulator, yesterday accepted a proposed $14.2 billion guarantee by Ontario Power Generation (OPG) for decommissioning Ontario’s major nuclear facilities. In other words, CNSC says it is confident that OPG will be able to pay the costs of decommissioning these facilities. Now, $14.2 billion sounds like a lot…
The Darlington Nuclear Generating Station on Lake Ontario is the second-largest clean energy centre in the Western Hemisphere (the largest is the Bruce nuclear plant on the east shore of Lake Huron). A multi-unit station consisting of four 860-megawatt reactors, Darlington has been providing bulk electricity, with zero carbon emissions, almost continuously for more than…
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