Nuclear regulation

Port Hope uranium workers had lower mortality and cancer than rest of Canadian population, says British Medical Journal study

March 14, 2013
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Port Hope uranium workers had lower mortality and cancer than rest of Canadian population, says British Medical Journal study

Helen Caldicott is a charming lady: passionate, pleasant, and engaging. She is also hopelessly wrong about her anti-nuclear cause, a fact which is so obvious that it is difficult to refrain from expressing frustration and even annoyance when speaking with her. I debated her once, on TVO, and thought I was being gentle in the…

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U.S. used nuclear fuel: the elephant is a mouse, is the solution to America’s power generation problems

January 29, 2013
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Listening to American politicians talk about energy security and clean energy is sometimes like listening to Captain Queeg testifying at the court martial: at first it sounds congruous, coherent, and believable, but upon the easiest cross examination it rapidly collapses under its own contradiction and irrelevancies. This is especially true with those politicians who fancy…

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Pickering license renewal: to dump, or not to dump, nine million tons of carbon into our air every single year, for five more years

January 9, 2013
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To dump or not to dump: that is the question: Whether ’tis nobler in Ontario to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous phony-green profiteering, or to take arms against a sea of carbon dioxide emissions, and by opposing—i.e., by extending the operating license of the Pickering nuclear generating station, which spews no carbon—end them……

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CANDU in Japan: different, proven, and symbiotic with the current fleet

January 2, 2013
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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…

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When Black Friday comes: some thoughts on nuclear power and the end of the world

December 21, 2012
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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…

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Item 1: if Ontario did not have its nuclear generating fleet, last hour’s CO2 emissions would have been AT LEAST:

5,560 metric tons, and the CIPK would have been 378.9 grams

Item 2: Since prorogation of the Ontario legislature on October 15, 2012, provincial gas-fired generating plants have dumped this much CO2 into our air:

6,343,838 metric tons. This is a running total. Every hour, the total increases by the amount of Gas CO2 given in Table 1.

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