Re: Greenpeace halts U.S. coal shipment to Ontario

["Jean-Francois, Stephane" <stephane_jeanfrancois@merck.com>]

7 out of 22 CANDU reactors in Canada (20 in Ontario, 1 in Quebec, one in
New Brunswick) were shut down after an independant consultant declares
that the reactors were, on a safety level "barely acceptable or
acceptable" It is my understanding that improper maintenance and
"improvisation" on some procedures are the main reason. There is no
exact decision as when the maintenance work (estimated to billion of CAN
$) will be performed.

That should show the public that CANDU needs rigorous maintenance and
procedures like any other piece of high tech equipment and more then
that, Nuclear Energy can shut itself down if it needs to ! (but you know
instead what was the immediate reaction from the public...)

Stephane Jean-Francois Phys. Eng.
RSO
Merck frosst Canada
stephane_jeanfrancois@merck.com
This is my opinion and do not involve my employer
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From: Jess Coleman
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: Re: Greenpeace halts U.S. coal shipment to Ontario
Date:  October 7, 1997 12:48

Sandy Perle wrote:
>
> The foolowing article is very interesting, in that Greepeace is now
> attacking coal as a source of energy. I suppsoe they'll be attacking
> solar energy next (once the 5 see the ":light"!!!  .. which leaves
> very few alternatives for the future...
> -------------------------
>
> TORONTO, Oct 6 (Reuter) - Members of the environmental activist group
> Greenpeace on Monday stopped a ship from unloading coal at a suburban
> power plant, saying increased production would lead to harmful levels
> of pollution.
>
> Draped in a banner reading, ``Coal Kills, Go Solar,'' five people
> chained themselves to a coal hopper used to transport coal into the
> storage facility at the Lakeview Thermal Generating Station in
> Mississauga, just west of Toronto.
>
> Greenpeace spokeswoman Alison Turner told Reuters the group was
> protesting plans by provincially owned utility Ontario Hydro to
> increase ``the use of coal to replace the energy output lost by the
> closure of seven nuclear reactors this year.''
>
> Turner said the coal being shipped from Pennsylvania via Ohio would
> allow the generating station to increase its productive capacity by
> about 400 percent.
>
> Ontario Hydro spokeswoman Lois Wallace confirmed plans to increase
> output at Lakeview, but said the 400 percent figure was misleading
> because the plant had not been running at full capacity before news of
> the reactor shutdowns.
>
> She said the delay in unloading the coal ``is costing us a lot of
> money,'' and added that Ontario Hydro had no idea what the protesters'
> intentions were.
>
> Wallace said police had not been called in to deal with the
> protesters.
>
> The utility announced plans in late August to shut down down seven of
> its 19 nuclear reactors and replace their production with output from
> plants fired by fossil fuels such as oil, gas and coal.
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Sandy et al,

7 CANDU reactors shut down?

How did that happen?  Planned or unplanned?

Jesse H. Coleman

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