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Nuclear reactor Nuclear power can also be generated in a Radioisotope thermoelectric generator, which produces heat through subcritical radioactive decay rather than fission in a near-critical mass. In the vast majority of the world's nuclear power plants, heat energy generated by fissioning uranium fuel is collected in purified water and is carried away from the reactor's core either as steam in boiling water reactors or as superheated water in pressurized-water reactors. Nuclear power does have very useful additional advantages such as the production of radioisotopes (used in medicine and food preservation), though the demand for these products can be satisfied by a relatively small number of plants. www.nebulasearch.com /encyclopedia/article/Nuclear_reactor.html   (3682 words)

Pickering Nuclear Generating Station - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Pickering is only surpassed in Canada by the Bruce Nuclear Generating Station, which while also having 8 reactors, has a greater output. The Pickering station is one of the largest nuclear facilities in the world and comprises 8 CANDU nuclear reactors located on the northern shore of Lake Ontario, having a total output of 4124 MW (capacity net) and 4336 MW (gross net) when all units are online. In April 1999 Ontario Hydro was split into 5 component Crown corporations with Ontario Power Generation (OPG) taking over all electrical generating stations and which continues to operate the Pickering station. www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pickering_nuclear_power_plant   (341 words)

Sierra Club of Canada Media Release The Pickering A nuclear station is a lemon.” When the additional four reactors of the Pickering B nuclear station began operation between 1983 and 1986, containment and emergency core cooling were shared for all eight reactors, resulting in even greater risk. The Pickering A nuclear station was designed in the 1960’s as a four-reactor station to cut costs by sharing key safety systems such as containment and emergency core cooling. www.sierraclub.ca /national/media/pickering-review-03-06-3.html   (3160 words)

oldest nuclear power plant1 The location of the Pickering Nuclear Station is a trade-off between public safety, the population to be served, the location of the energy resource to be tapped and a multi-billion dollar investment. The recent valve failure at Pickering, which resulted in the unscheduled shutdown of all eight reactors at the station last week, was the latest example in a long record of accidents at the facility. Pickering A was closed down shortly thereafter with a plant manager commenting at the time: "The continuing discovery of such items in the plant is both embarrassing and a threat to our recovery and survival as a business." Public safety was not mentioned. www.blackhole.on.ca /nuclear_oldest.htm   (2856 words)

Pickering, Ontario, Pictures The Pickering Nuclear Generating Station is also significant to the town's economy. Pickering is situated on Lake Ontario and is a residential suburb of Toronto. Pickering was laid out from 1791 to 1792 and is named for Pickering, England. www.greatestcities.com /North_America/Canada/Ontario/Pickering_city.html   (166 words)

NOW : Culture : Nuclear snaps : Aug 2 - 8, 2001 Pickering Nuclear Generating Station, Claire Falkenberg's altered colour photographs of the no man's land surrounding the power plant must have given the workers there pause. Shot in Tokyo train stations, waiting rooms and shopping streets, her stark urban images elucidate the beauty found in utilitarian objects -- an empty vending cart, metal shutters, luggage lockers airbrushed with a blue sky -- and resonate with the energy of lives lived. It's as though her landscapes have been evacuated in the wake of a nuclear accident. www.nowtoronto.com /issues/2001-08-02/art_reviews2.html   (261 words)

Encyclopedia: Bruce Nuclear Generating Station Bruce Nuclear Generating Station is a Canadian nuclear power station located in Tiverton, Ontario. A nuclear power plant (NPP) is a thermal power station in which the heat source is one or more nuclear reactors. In April 1999 Ontario Hydro was split into 5 component Crown corporations with Ontario Power Generation (OPG) taking over all electrical generating stations. www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Bruce-Nuclear-Generating-Station   (650 words)

Pickering A nuclear generator passes safety review (2004) The Pickering A nuclear generating station has received a generally passing grade in a safety review by the International Atomic Energy Agency. Pickering A is the province's oldest operating nuclear station, dating from the early 1970s. In a response to the review, station manager John Coleby says Pickering management invited a team of experts from the World Association of Nuclear Operators to help OPG fix some of the problems highlighted by the review. www.ontariotenants.ca /electricity/articles/2004/ts-04g06.phtml   (588 words)

Validating Eddy Current Array Probes for Inspecting Steam Generator Tubes For example, steam generator tubes in the Pickering Nuclear Generating Station (PNGS) are composed of a ferromagnetic copper-nickel alloy called Monel 400. A CANDU nuclear reactor was shut down for over one year because steam generator (SG) tubes had failed with outer diameter stress corrosion cracking (ODSCC) in the U-bend section. One alternative to technique validation based on tubes removed from in-service steam generators is to prepare samples m the laboratory with properties that simulate the field conditions encountered in inspections. www.ndt.net /article/0198/sullivan/sullivan.htm   (1885 words)

WISE NC; CANADIAN N-PLANT LIES IN QUAKE ZONE Newly discovered fault lines near the Pickering nuclear generating station in southern Ontario, Canada show the area is a potential earthquake zone, according to scientists writing in the November issue of Geology magazine. Two years ago, the AECB reported two lines meeting at Pickering where the earth's magnetic field is different from the field in the surrounding area. The AECB [Atomic Energy Control Board] has expressed concerns over this situation, primarily for Pickering NGS A as it is closest to a major population center and is the oldest plant... www.antenna.nl /wise/382/3747.html   (533 words)

AECL - Atomic Energy of Canada Limited: International Offices In 1973, the Pickering A Nuclear Generating Station, with four CANDU reactors, produced more electricity than any nuclear power station in the world at that time. Between 1977 and 1978, four 825 MW reactor units began commercial operation at Ontario Hydro's Bruce A Nuclear Generating Station, located on the shores of Lake Huron. Nuclear power does not produce greenhouse gases, like carbon dioxide, or the gases that cause acid rain. www.aecl.ca /version3.asp?layid=3&menuid=193&csid=49   (468 words)

..::The Canadian Nuclear Workers Council::..www.cnwc-cctn.ca This station when fully operating can provide up to 4120 MW which represents up to approximately 23% of the electrical energy needs for the Province of Ontario. The primary workers at this station are proud members of the Power Workers' Union and The Society Of Energy Proffessionals. The facility is divided into two Power Plants known as Pickering A, Units 1-4 and Pickering B Units 5-8. www.cnwc-cctn.ca /pickering.html   (119 words)

Ottawa Business Journal - News Story As part of that plan to shutter the coal plants, the government last month gave the green light to Unit 1 of the Pickering A nuclear generating station to service. generation capacity in Ontario that displaced OPG's higher marginal cost fossil-fuelled generation, and an increase in unplanned outages at the Nanticoke fossil-fuelled generating station." Ontario Power Generation Inc., the company that keeps the lights on, slipped into the red in its second-quarter results released Friday due to weaker revenues and the costs associated with shutting down polluting coal-fired plants. www.ottawabusinessjournal.com /281255953251570.php   (349 words)

Top executives are out amid huge cost overruns at Pickering nuclear power plant (2003) The outdated design of the 30-year-old nuclear generators and years of inadequate maintenance had resulted in a plant that performed at about 36 per cent of capacity in 1996. The rebuilding of the Pickering A plant was supposed to remedy serious deficiencies in reliability and safety that surfaced in 1996 and 1997. The 74-year-old chairman of Ontario Power Generation, a close associate of former premier Mike Harris, was appointed to OPG predecessor Ontario Hydro in 1995. www.ontariotenants.ca /electricity/articles/2003/gm-03l05.phtml   (1067 words)

Frenchman's Bay, PICKERING CRUISING CANADA canadian boating,cruising navigation harbors Approaching Frenchman's Bay from the east you can not miss the huge wind generator that now dwarfs the 8 containment domes of the now (temporarily) closed Pickering nuclear Generating Station complex are easily visible to the east at Moore Point. There are two stone Groynes, part of the Generating Station Complex 0.15 miles long and 250 feet apart extending offshore to the East of Frenchman's Bay 0.7 miles,. Pickering Beach is just west of Richardson Point with summer cottages along the shoreline. www.cruising.ca /guide/docs/gd-french.html   (1189 words)

OPG fact sheet Pickering A station went into service in 1971 and continued to operate safely until 1997 when it was placed in voluntary lay-up as part of OPG's nuclear improvement program. OPG also operated Bruce A and Bruce B nuclear generating stations until May 2001 when they were leased to Bruce Power L.P. Nuclear power stations currently provide about 38% of electricity generated by OPG. Darlington Nuclear Generating Station alone is capable of providing about 20 per cent of Ontario's electricity needs. www.candu.org /opg.html   (168 words)

050429nn.txt Nuclear is back on the agenda in many of the former Soviet territories still directly suffering from the accident fall-out - below is a roundup of the situation in three of them. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission, meanwhile, is expected within two weeks to approve a Northeastern utility's request to send Waste Control Specialists 84 million pounds of radioactive demolition debris from a closed nuclear power plant in Massachusetts. Tehran denies the U.S. charge, saying its nuclear program is solely for the generation of power. nucnews.net /nucnews/2005nn/0504nn/050429nn.txt   (18051 words)

WISE NC; TRITIUM RELEASES FROM CANDU REACTORS: HEALTH HAZARDS OF RADIATION McArthur, whose earlier report (#CR-1) led to the present HWC report, concludes that despite their denials, the epidemiological evidence presented in the AECB reports in fact indicates that radioactive emissions from the Pickering station are causing birth defects in local children. HWC found a "statistically significant" correlation of central nervous system (CNS) birth defects with large releases of tritium to air: five Pickering infants with CNS defects (anencephaly, microcephaly, spina bifida with hydrocephalus, and two others whose defect code was not on record) were born in January-July 1978, following the airborne tritium releases of April-October 1977. The report itself admitted that the radius is too large, and inappropriate for the suburban Pickering area. www10.antenna.nl /wise/374-5/3679.html   (635 words)

OCAA's E-Mail Bulletins Manley, Pickering A Unit #1 can be returned to service within 2 years despite the fact that it took OPG 6 years to re-start Pickering A Unit #4. Manley, the cost of the Pickering A Unit #1 re-start will be only $500 to $600 million despite the fact that the actual cost of the Pickering A Unit #4 re-start was $1.25 billion. In contrast, Ontario's total coal and nuclear generation capacity is 18,382 MW. www.cleanair.web.net /media/bullmar1804.html   (566 words)

L085A - Mon 15 Nov 2004 / Lun 15 nov 2004 Premier, it appears that your Attorney General, in the interest of grabbing headlines and not public safety, has introduced legislation that does not adequately address the issue of dangerous dogs and has done so with claims of support that were either misunderstood or worse. He may be prepared to write off 30% of the younger generation and allow them, at the beginning of the 21st century in a knowledge-based economy, to somehow seek out some kind of meagre existence on the basis of a grade 10 or 11 education. The reality is that the Attorney General cited a US study that said one third of fatal dog attacks between 1979 and 1998 were caused by pit bulls. www.ontla.on.ca /hansard/house_debates/38_parl/Session1/L085A.htm   (17647 words)

Tax Bulletin Pickering Nuclear Generating Station A (Units 1, 2 and 3). The rebate may be claimed by the owners/lessees of eligible electricity generating facilities, including qualifying nuclear facilities, and of deep lake-water cooling facilities who purchase and incorporate building materials into these facilities. If an electricity generating facility ceases to qualify within four years of receiving the rebate (through significant exports, i.e., more than 10% of the electricity generated), the rebate must be repaid. www.trd.fin.gov.on.ca /userfiles/page_attachments/Library/3/Rsie_In31.htm   (1244 words)

CNSC - Media Centre - News Release Following hearings on June 28, August 9 and October 3, 2001, the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) today announced its decision to amend the operating licence for Ontario Power Generation's Pickering Nuclear Generating Station ‘A'. The CNSC regulates the use of nuclear energy and materials to protect health, safety, security and the environment and to respect Canada's international commitments on the peaceful use of nuclear energy. The Commission concluded that OPG is qualified to operate this facility and, with the required improvements and upgrades, will make adequate provision for the protection of the environment, the health and safety of persons, and the maintenance of national security and measures required to implement Canada's international obligations. www.nuclearsafety.gc.ca /eng/media/news/01-15.cfm   (296 words)

Power Plants Fire Sprinkler Systems - APi Fire Protection Group One of the world's largest nuclear generating facilities, Pickering consists of two stations, each with four CANDU reactor units, resulting in a total output of 4,120 megawatts (MW). The Pickering station is located on the shores of Lake Ontario. In Pickering A, the work is comprised of the supply and installation of five wet pipe sprinkler systems, two deluge sprinkler systems, and four pre-action sprinkler systems supplying approximately 4,500 sprinkler heads. www.apifiregroup.com /projects/power-plant.html   (338 words)

OCAA in the media Restarting a second unit of the Pickering A nuclear generating station is a losing proposition based on the total cost of the project, according to an economic analysis. Pickering A was shut down in 1997, and one of its four units restarted last fall. The crucial measurement is to compare the future costs of Pickering with the future costs of a high efficiency natural gas plant producing the same amount. www.cleanair.web.net /media/omedia.html   (699 words)

Earth Lights - Earthquake Lights - Ontario's Ghost Road This line runs directly under the Pickering Nuclear Generating Station and has been the focus of much study and concern in recent years. Another theory is that the pressure generated during earthquakes may cause water molecules to separate into atoms of hydrogen and oxygen, then quickly recombine back to water. Some researchers theorize that earthquake lights are produced by seismic stresses that may generate high voltages that create small masses of ionized gas, which are then released into the air near the fault line. www.geocities.com /sweetspirit_2002/earth.html   (592 words)

..::The Canadian Nuclear Workers Council::..www.cnwc-cctn.ca This station was built in the 1980's and came into service in the early 1990's when all four units are operating the station produces up to 19% of the electricity needs for the Province of Ontario. This Power Plant consists of 4 Candu Nuclear Reactors rated at 900 MW each. This Plant is owned and operated by Ontario Power Generation (OPG) and the workers are proud members of the Power Workers' Union and The Society Of Energy Proffessionals. www.cnwc-cctn.ca /darlington.html   (140 words)

Region of Durham - News Along with the Durham Region Emergency Measures Office, representatives from the following organizations will participate: the Province of Ontario, municipalities of Pickering, Oshawa, Clarington, Ajax, Whitby, Peterborough and Toronto, Ontario Power Generation, Pickering Nuclear Generating Station, local Durham school boards, Amateur Radio Emergency Services, and Regional staff. A simulated event at the Pickering nuclear plant will be the basis of the planning exercise. This exercise is part of a comprehensive exercise schedule to ensure public safety plans are in place in the event of a nuclear or large-scale emergency. www.region.durham.on.ca /newsprint.asp?nr=dnews/2003/oct1003.htm   (255 words)

Nuclear Plant Proximity The Pickering nuclear reactor, the largest in the world, is just 12km south of the proposed site. Given the extremely close proximity of the Proposed Pickering Airport to not one but two nuclear power plants, this proposal places literally millions of people at risk. The world regulatory body on nuclear safety also says that member states must spend what ever it takes to protect these facilities, and that the IAEA is considering imposing mandatory no fly zones in a 10 to 20km radius around nuclear plants. www.vocalvoice.ca /html/nuclear_plant_proximity.html   (520 words)

The NRU Reactor - Making Electricity A nuclear reaction can be used as the heat source in a power station. In a power station, as the steam flows out of the boiler, it is used to drive a turbine, and the turbine turns a generator, making electricity. The energy released by a kilogram of nuclear fuel is far more than that from a kilogram of a chemical fuel such as coal. www.nrureactor.ca /html/nuclear1.html   (240 words)

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