At the end of this year, Quebec will permanently shut down its only nuclear generator, the CANDU 6 known as Gentilly 2. What will replace G2’s clean electricity? Dirty, carbon-heavy electricity from fossil-fired generators. The reactor has been operating since…
Category: Atomic Energy Canada
North America’s biggest nuclear plant just got bigger: good news for the planet
The Bruce nuclear station near Tiverton Ontario will soon have an eighth operating reactor unit, and a total operating capacity of 6,300 megawatts. The refurbished CANDU unit 2, laid up since the late 1990s, began putting power into the Ontario…
Food safety and Canada’s economy: time to start using gamma rays, the sharpest tool in our toolbox
Mankind has since the beginning of time been waging daily, life-or-death war against toxic microbes in food. We either kill the microbes or they kill us; it really is that simple. Our primary weapons in this war, from earliest times…
Will the PQ shut down Quebec’s largest and cleanest electricity generator?
The Canadian media is today mildly abuzz with reports that the new Parti-Quebecois government in Quebec will not go ahead with the refurbishment of Gentilly-2, a 635-MW CANDU power plant that came into service in 1983. The PQ has for…
Labour peace returns, possibly, to Canadian nuclear sector: time to bring on Game Day
The Canadian nuclear workforce is an impressive thing. Men and women in nuclear plants produce, in collaboration with superb management organizations, most of the electricity in Ontario, Canada’s largest province and most important economy. This workforce, again in collaboration with…