The biggest clean-energy news in nearly seven years broke late yesterday, when Bruce Power announced it is making steam again at Unit 2. The heat to make Unit 2′s steam comes from a 750-megawatt CANDU reactor. This machine “burns” tiny amounts of natural uranium fuel, and is one of the most efficient ways on...
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High quality job creation in Ontario: here’s how they’re solving the problem in the U.S.
Yesterday the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission announced it will approve a construction and operating license for two Westinghouse AP1000 reactors at The Southern Company’s Vogtle generating plant. This will be the first new U.S. nuclear project in more than three decades. It will create around 25,000 direct and indirect jobs. A couple years ago,...
Nuclear progress in Canada: like the western pipelines, it’s all about real property rights
If your energy strategy involves somebody else’s real property, don’t be surprised if that somebody’s legal property rights trump your energy strategy. CBC Radio’s The Current recently published a very interesting interview with the Canadian federal natural resources minister, who during the interview gives a pretty well-explained account of the government’s support of the...
CANDU back in the game: what now?
After months of excruciating uncertainty, the CANDU situation has been resolved somewhat. As everyone predicted, SNC-Lavalin has agreed to purchase the CANDU reactor part of Atomic Energy Canada Ltd. I won’t go into the ins and outs of the deal. I’ll just focus on what needs to happen now. Assuming the deal is indeed...
Loan guarantees for Newfoundland-Labrador hydro project: implications for Ontario
Stephen Harper, Canada’s prime minister and leader of the federal Conservatives, just promised loan guarantees for the proposed 824-megawatt hydro project at Muskrat Falls on the Lower Churchill River in Newfoundland-Labrador. Opposition parties, when they’re being honest, have cautiously supported this. New Democrat Thomas Mulcair, in a fight for his political life in Outremont,...
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