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	Pickering Nuclear Generating Station - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pickering Nuclear Generating Station is a Canadian nuclear power station located in Pickering, Ontario.
		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.
		Pickering is only surpassed in Canada by the Bruce Nuclear Generating Station, which while also having 8 reactors, has a greater output.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pickering_Nuclear_Power_Plant (284 words)

	Ontario Power Generation - Operations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-09)
		Pickering A - the first four of the Pickering reactors - went into service in 1971 and continued to operate safely until 1997 when it was placed in voluntary lay-up in 1997 as part of what was then Ontario Hydro's nuclear improvement program.
		Pickering B - units five, six, seven and eight - continues to operate safely since they were brought into service in 1983.
		Pickering A and Pickering B are very similar in structure and facilities.
	www.opg.com /ops/N_pickering.asp (887 words)

	NUCLEAR POWER //
		This nuclear power plant is just outside Toronto in a densely populated area on the shores of Lake Ontario.
		Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit of Turkey cancelled the proposed nuclear power plant for Akkuyu Bay on the Mediterranean coast in the summer of 2000.
		Indeed the issue of nuclear power stations in densely populated areas is a graphic illustration of how little input Canadians have in these nuclear-power decisions.
	jamesbredin.tripod.com /numberfour/id26.html (1707 words)

	Pickering Hydro Reactors Shut Down
		A problem with the water that flows into the boilers at the Pickering Nuclear Power Plant forced the shutdown of the largest power generation facility in Ontario.
		Officials with Ontario Power Generation, which runs the facility, refused to comment on the closure, but a source at the Pickering plant confirmed the shutdown for maintenance.
		Pickering Mayor Wayne Arthurs said three operational reactors were shut down — one due to operator error in tripping a circuit breaker on a safety shutdown system and the others as a result of leaks in the water line that feeds the boilers.
	www.electricityforum.com /news/mar03/pickering.html (279 words)

	Pickering, Ontario -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-09)
		The city is well known for the (additional info and facts about Pickering nuclear power plant) Pickering nuclear power plant, and the adjacent (additional info and facts about OPG 7 commemorative turbine) OPG 7 commemorative turbine.
		Much of Pickering is still farmland or wild lands.
		The construction of subdivisions on these lands has guided public policy and it is recognized that most successful local politicians are supported by local developers.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/p/pi/pickering,_ontario.htm (197 words)

	National Electrical Power Grid - The World & I Online Magazine
		Pickering Nuclear Power Plant near Toronto, Canada: The proper use of atomic energy holds great promise for a bright future.
		All these plants use natural gas as their base fuel for generating electricity, and the price of natural gas is increasing substantially.
		If the gas-fired power plants are built, then it is a virtual certainty that domestic supply will not meet the demand.
	www.worldandi.com /public/2001/june/adpower.html (2243 words)

	TIMELINE
		Nuclear power was to play a key role in this reduction, but several nuclear power plants were closed following allegations of safety violations and cover-ups.
		Davis-Besse Nuclear Plant are of "high safety significance." Under the NRC 4-color classification process, such a finding falls into the "red" category, mandating strong actions by NRC to correct the problem.
		Nuclear power accounted for 20.1 percent of the total electricity generated in the United States, tying the record sent in 1992.
	www.eia.doe.gov /cneaf/nuclear/page/nuctimeline.html (7164 words)

	Pickering Nuclear Station - Nuclear Energy Safe or Deadly? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-09)
		The Pickering Nuclear Generating Station is one of the oldest operating nuclear stations in the world and the oldest nuclear plant in Canada.
		Prior to Cherobyl, the nuclear industry had claimed that the chances of a serious accident occurring at a nuclear power plant was no more than one in a million "reactor years".
		Pickering Nuclear Generating Station is situated in a potential earthquake zone with new fault lines recently discovered.
	www.blackhole.on.ca /nuclear.htm (6476 words)

	abysmal performance and safety (B) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-09)
		August 28, 1998, Pickering Nuclear officials confirmed radioactive tritium was released into Lake Ontario as a result of a Unit 6 boiler tube leak that prompted the unit to be shut down.
		A station manager had commented: "The continuing discovery of such items in the plant is both embarrassing and a threat to our recovery and survival as a business." This was one of five significant event reports relating to illicit alcohol and/or drug use in the Pickering nuclear stations in 1996.
		Pickering reactor 4 had a heavy water leak from a heat exchanger that resulted in the release of 50 trillion becquerels of tritium into Lake Ontario.
	www.blackhole.on.ca /nuclear_abysmal_performance.htm (2031 words)

	World Nuclear Association \| Articles, Editorials and Opinion \| Burn, baby, burn: Why we're back to nuclear power (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-09)
		While Ontario plans to shut down five coal-fired generating plants by 2007, China is striving to open at least 16 by the same date, as well as gas and nuclear plants.
		With nuclear power already producing 40 per cent of the province's power, its seems inevitable that additional nuclear capacity will soon be required.
		The handling of nuclear waste is not a pressing technical issue, and can be safely enmeshed in endless public hearings, where its essentially political nature ensures harmless inaction.
	www.world-nuclear.org /opinion/thorsell_260704.htm (850 words)

	Adverse Impact of the CANDU Nuclear Fuel Cycle - Research and Graduate Studies - Royal Military College of Canada
		The Canadian Deuterium Uranium – CANDU reactor fuel cycle consists of: uranium mining and milling in the Northwest Territories, Saskatchewan and Ontario; uranium refining, conversion and fuel fabrication in Ontario; and nuclear power plant operations and temporary used fuel storage in Ontario, Quebec and New Brunswick.
		Tritium in groundwater at the Pickering nuclear power plant measured from 105 to 1011 Bq/L due to leaks and rainfall deposition.
		Confounding the radiological risk estimates from CANDU power plant operations in Ontario is the use of radiation in medicine and dentistry without dose tracking.
	www.rmc.ca /academic/gradrech/abstracts/2004/chem2004-8_e.html (460 words)

	EXN.ca \| Discovery
		Ontario Hydro knew eighteen years ago that a radioactive leak from its Pickering, Ontario nuclear power plant had contaminated local groundwater, but failed to inform the public or even the province's Ministry of Environment about it.
		Tokyo Electric Power Company officials said the 60-centimetre long eel was fried upon making contact with a 6600-volt power cable.
		Power was restored in less than an hour.
	www.exn.ca /Stories/1997/08/01/01.asp (642 words)

	Probe International Press Releases (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-09)
		Seven of the province's 19 functional nuclear reactors will be shut down over the next year, with an estimated cost to the utility of $5-billion to $8-billion over the next four years.
		The report, released after an eight-month investigation by a team of American nuclear experts, is the latest chapter in the ongoing saga of problem-plagued Ontario Hydro.
		Last month, the beleaguered utility admitted that tritium-laced heavy water had been leaking out of a heavy water enrichment plant at the Pickering nuclear power plant for 18 years without the proper authorities being notified.
	www.threegorgesprobe.org /probeint/p-releases.html (266 words)

	Pickering Nuclear Power Plant
		The plant tour centre is currently being renovated so this off site unit is being used until the centre is complete.
		The facility was small but we all squeezed into the room to watch a video on the safety features of the plant.
		The reason for no food items is there is a nuclear regulatory code that say's no food items are to be taken into the plant.
	www.ipe.org /pickering_nuclear_power_plant.htm (928 words)

	Chornobyl Nuclear Catastrophe
		The incredible spread of radioactive particles from the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant throughout Europe in serious amounts and in lesser amounts across the entire northern hemisphere, including Canada and the United States, and the entire world is astonishing.
		At first they thought their own plant was the cause but then they realized that it was coming from the southeast, from the Soviet Union, and eventually Chornobyl some 800 miles away was pinpointed from wind patterns.
		A circle of 18.6 miles (30 kilometers) in radius was established around the power plant which is located between the city of Chornobyl to the south and Pripyat which is north of it.
	www.infoukes.com /history/chornobyl/gregorovich (4164 words)

	RadWaste.org - International nuclear power plants & utilities (1)
		There are currently approximately 437 nuclear power reactors in operation in over 25 countries around the world, with a total output of some 350,000 megawatts.
		It should be noted that a given nuclear power plant may be owned or operated by a consortium of electric utilities.
		In addition, many nuclear sites host more than one reactor (often of different designs), which may be owned or operated by different companies.
	www.radwaste.org /power.htm (452 words)

	Police arrest 19 in terror probe
		A man enrolled in a flight school — where training involves flying over the Pickering nuclear power plant — is one of 19 people being held in a Toronto-area jail while federal officers investigate possible links to terrorist groups.
		I visit US nuclear power plants somewhat frequently, and site access at them is tightly controlled.
		I approached the plant at a reasonable (non-suspicious) rate of speed, turned around a mile from the plant site (there is nothing else on that road at that point), and The Law still checked me out.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/fr/968676/posts (1882 words)

	Re: [CTRL] Blackout coincidences ?
		All 19 men, aged 18 to 33, were from Punjabi province in Pakistan, and were in Canada on student visas and forged immigration documents to maintain their presence in the country.
		Several of the men were taking flying lessons, including one whose lessons took him over Pickering nuclear power plant, located 20 mi/30 km east of Toronto.
		Other men were turned away from the gates of the Pickering plant after claiming they wanted to take a shortcut walk through the plant on their way to the beach.
	www.mail-archive.com /ctrl@listserv.aol.com/msg107689.html (428 words)

	World Nuclear Association \| News Briefings \| Nuclear Energy News \| News Briefing 05.01 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-09)
		[NB05.01-2] Lithuania: The RBMK-type Ignalina-1 nuclear power reactor was shut down on 31 December, in accordance with the terms of the country’s accession to the European Union (EU).
		The EU has promised to finance the closure of the plant – which is estimated at EUR2-3 billion (US$3-4 billion) over 30 years – and has already allocated more than EUR200 million (US$271 million) to prepare decommissioning of the first unit.
		The facility is for the dry storage of used reactor fuel from the Pickering nuclear power plant.
	www.world-nuclear.org /nb/nb05/nb0501.htm (1767 words)

	Pakistan Facts - Police arrest 19 in terror probe
		According to the document, one man raised suspicion because he is currently taking commercial pilot lessons to qualify as a multi-engine commercial pilot.
		In April, two other "associates of the group" were deemed suspicious when police found them outside the gates of the Pickering plant.
		The document notes the men are all from "or have connections to the Punjab province in Pakistan that is noted for Sunni extremism." Among the mens' suspicious associations, according to officials, are individuals who have access to nuclear gauges.
	www.pakistan-facts.com /article.php?story=20030822112735136 (1817 words)

	Power Engineering - Canadian nuclear plant delivers first electricity since 1997
		The power plant, just east of Toronto on Lake Ontario, comprises four 540 MW Candu reactors.
		OPG also operates four other nuclear reactors at its Pickering B facility, which it is currently considering extending the life of.
		Power Engineering and Power Engineering International welcomes article submittals addressing topics of timely interest to the power generation community.
	pepei.pennnet.com /Articles/Article_Display.cfm?ARTICLE_ID=237699&p=6 (335 words)

	Planet Ark : Ontario opens North America's biggest windmill
		The turbine, with a capacity of 1.8 megawatts - or enough to power for about 600 homes - is located beside the utility's Pickering nuclear power station, just east of Toronto.
		Ontario Power is also studying the idea of a 10 MW wind farm in the Bruce Peninsula, on Lake Huron.
		One small turbine, about one-third the size of the Pickering unit, is already operational there and the firm is in talks with manufacturers to buy eight to 15 more, he said.
	www.planetark.org /dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/12137/story.htm (566 words)

	Hand Coding » Blog Archive » Inopportune Nuclear Layoffs
		Via Terry Labach’s quotation-of-the-day mailing list, I was amused by this report of some over-zelous layoffs at the Pickering A nuclear station in the UK:
		The workers began leaving the site and had to be asked back to tighten a plug they had loosened in the plant's radioactive-containment system.
		Considering that it’s a nuclear plant, you would have figured that they would have thought that through.
	www.handcoding.com /archives/2003/12/12/inopportune-nuclear-layoffs (268 words)

	Plants - welcome to Power Plant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-09)
		Power Plants provides latest Energy World News from the most comprehensive global news network on the internet. News and analysis on energy, electricity, oil, gas and more. Searchable news in 21 languages from WN Network
		Most of us would be at a total loss without electricity in our daily lives. Nuclear power plants produce a sizeable percentage of the world's electricity, but they also create a great deal of controversy. Find out what goes on inside a nuclear reactor.
		Eyeballing 104 Nuclear Reactors at 63 Power Plants
	www.mdplants.com /powerplant (1489 words)

	Pickering-Ajax-Ontario - RC Groups (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-09)
		At the top of the frame is the Pickering Nuclear Power plant just east of Toronto.
		It is a Candu plant using heavy water as the moderator.
		Terry the transmitter, the RCGroups name and logo, The E Zone, Lift Zone, and RC Power are all trademarks of RCGroups and Jim Bourke.
	www.rcgroups.com /forums/showthread.php?t=143177 (297 words)

	Islamica Community Forums - Toronto: Police arrest 19 in terror probe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-09)
		Pickering nuclear power plant - is one of 19 people being held in a
		So it would not be unusual for a pilot to make a pass over the nuclear plant
		The Islamica Community Forums are powered by vBulletin.
	www.islamicaweb.com /archive/t-10384 (2038 words)

	The Militant - September 29, 2003 -- 21 arrested in Toronto ‘terror’ sweep
		The Immigration and Refugee Protection Act gives the federal government the power to detain indefinitely any foreign national deemed to be a threat to “national security.”
		The sole Indian citizen among the detainees, the PSAT snoops said, “is currently enrolled in flight school.
		His flight plan for training purposes took him over the Pickering Nuclear Power Plant.” A flight instructor at the school denied the claim, along with another PSAT allegation that the student was taking an unusually long time to finish the course.
	www.themilitant.com /2003/6733/673311.html (545 words)

	Calendar of Nuclear Accidents
		Below is a calendar that shows the threat that humanity faces from the atom bomb and the nuclear fuel cycle.
		This calendar gives some examples of the everyday nuclear incidents that have occurred all over the world.
		29-1991: Power limited due to error between actual and indicated power at Pickering nuclear power plant(Canada).
	archive.greenpeace.org /comms/nukes/chernob/rep02.html (3566 words)

	CBC Marketplace: Small Plane Safety
		There are more restrictions on flying over the Toronto Zoo than the Pickering nuclear power plant, east of the city
		On Perrin's flight, she was able to circle the CN Tower, Toronto's best-known landmark, and fly over the Pickering Nuclear Power Plant.
		There have been calls for "no fly zones" over nuclear plants.
	www.cbc.ca /consumers/market/files/travel/small_plane_safety (913 words)

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