John Spears of the Toronto Star published an interesting piece the other day about the performance of Ontario Power Generation’s Pickering nuclear plant. Its headline reads “Pickering nuclear units among the most expensive, least reliable in the world,” but readers should keep a couple of facts in mind. First, as Scott Luft points out, price...
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Ontario about to add huge zero-carbon capacity to the grid: clean, cheap, reliable electricity
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...
Three years of cheap gas spells NO RELIEF for Ontario electricity consumers
The price of North American natural gas has been ridiculously low since before the recession of 2008. In that time, the fossil component of the Ontario electricity supply essentially shifted from coal-fired power generation to gas-fired. The provincial grid still supplied mostly with nuclear, but the fossil supply is now mostly gas. As I...
Greenpeace loves natural gas, and supports LNG exports to South Korea and Japan
The shutdown of Japan’s nuclear fleet because of the casualty-free Fukushima meltdown will produce more scenes like this: That was the Cosmo oil Chiba refinery, east of Tokyo, after it exploded during the March 11, 2011 earthquake. It only took a couple of weeks to put that fire out. Who knows how many people...
Battle of the nuclear ads: Brook vs. NEI
Barry Brook of Brave New Climate recently did a nice edgy YouTube ad in favour of nuclear energy: And recently, the Nuclear Energy Institute, a U.S. industry lobby group, rolled out this tv ad: Which one do you like better? Blog this! Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Share on Linkedin...
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