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Pont Lepreau nuclear plant – yet another setback

N.B. nuclear plant another year behind schedule, August 6, 2010 CBC News Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. has informed the New Brunswick government and NB Power that the $1.4-billion refurbishment of the Point Lepreau Nuclear Generating Station is another year behind schedule…….

Election hot potato

The new delay comes just as the campaign for the Sept. 27 provincial election starts up. The Liberals were quick to point out that the contract with AECL for the refurbishment of Point Lepreau was signed by the Progressive Conservative government of Bernard Lord in 2005. CBC News – New Brunswick – N.B. nuclear plant another year behind schedule

August 7, 2010 Posted by | Canada, politics | , , | Leave a comment

Plan to ship radioactive bus-sized nuclear generators across Greatr Lakes

Opponents of the plan argue that the school-bus sized generators are too dangerous to ship across waterways that millions of people in Canada and the U.S. rely on for drinking water. Some worry that it will also open up the lakes as a main thoroughfare for other nuclear shipments.

Public hearing delays planned nuclear shipment, Montreal Gazette, 4 Aug 2010, TORONTO — A controversial plan to ship 16 aging radioactive steam generators across Ontario’s Great Lakes has been delayed so a public hearing can take place. Continue reading →

August 5, 2010 Posted by | Canada, opposition to nuclear | , , , , , | Leave a comment

Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission will allow shipment of steam generators across Great Lakes

Bruce Power asked Canada’s nuclear regulator for a licence to ship the steam generators from its power plant on Lake Huron to Sweden, where 90 per cent of the metals inside the generators are to be recycled and resold. The remaining materials that are too radioactive to be recycled will then return to the Bruce plant to be contained for the rest of their radioactive lives.

Public hearing to be held on shipment of nuclear waste through Great Lakes – thestar.com, Brett Popplewell , Jul 30 2010 Canada’s nuclear safety regulator has agreed to hold a public hearing into a controversial plan to ship 1,760 tonnes of radiation-laced steel through Lake Ontario. Continue reading →

August 2, 2010 Posted by | Canada, wastes | , , , , , , , | 18 Comments

Nuclear technology seller gaoled in Canada

Canadian jailed in Iran ‘nuclear export’ case, BBC News, 30 July 2010 A Canadian court has sentenced a Toronto resident to over four years in prison for violating a United Nations resolution by attempting to export nuclear-related goods to Iran.The items, called pressure transducers, are subject to a UN embargo on nuclear-related exports.Mahmoud Yadegari was arrested after a two-month investigation in 2009.Yadegari is the first person convicted of violating UN anti-nuclearproliferation resolutions against Iran.

BBC News – Canadian jailed in Iran ‘nuclear export’ case

July 30, 2010 Posted by | Canada, Legal | , , , | Leave a comment

Nuclear radioactive threat to the Great Lakes

natives, like 40 million Canadians and Americans draw their drinking water from the Great Lakes and they also rely on fish caught in them.

(Canada) Coalition opposes shipping plan, By CHIP MARTIN, The London Free Press : July 27, 2010 Aboriginal voices have joined the growing international chorus opposing plans to ship radioactive nuclear generators along the Great Lakes. Continue reading →

July 28, 2010 Posted by | Canada, environment | , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

New Brunswick – more delays on nuclear power plant

N.B. government asks feds to comment on nuclear delay – CTV News. The Canadian Press Jul. 26, 2010 FREDERICTON — New Brunswick’s energy minister says there are rumours of further delays in the refurbishment of the Point Lepreau nuclear power plant Continue reading →

July 27, 2010 Posted by | business and costs, Canada | , , , | Leave a comment

St Lawrence Seaway at risk from shipment of old nuclear reactors

the idea of having nuclear waste traveling on Lake Huron, through the Welland Canal and the St. Lawrence Seaway is raising concerns among the region’s environmental groups……..

Nuclear waste worries groups, SEAWAY CARGO: Canadian plant awaits OK for its shipping plan, Watertown Daily Times By JAEGUN LEE, JULY 14, 2010, Continue reading →

July 15, 2010 Posted by | Canada, wastes | , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Opposition to nuclear steam generators in Canadian harbour

“The idea of having 16 steam generator sitting on the harbour wall for five weeks is not acceptable to me. They do emit radiation,” she said.

Mayor concerned about nuclear steam generators – Bruce Power officials at council tonight Owen Sound Sun Times – Ontario, CA By Denis Langlois 12 July 2010, A plan by nuclear generator Bruce Power to ship 16 radioactive steam generators out of Owen Sound Harbour to Sweden has run into opposition by the city’s mayor. Ruth Lovell Stanners said storing the school bus-sized, decommissioned generators, considered intermediate-level nuclear waste, next to the harbour and then shipping them on the Great Lakes poses too much of a public health and safety risk to ignore…………. Continue reading →

July 13, 2010 Posted by | Canada, safety | , , , , , , | Leave a comment

AREVA’s untested nuclear reactors not likely to go ahead in Canada

.…they do not believe the Areva-New Brunswick project will see the light of day.New Brunswick is too small for such an expensive nuclear reactor and does not need the power to meet its own power usage, they argued. “The designs Areva is proposing are untested prototypes so I doubt the private sector would ever assume the risks,”….(CAnada) N.B. overhaul attracts skeptics, Nicolas Van Praet, Financial Post ·  , Jul. 8, 2010 Paris-based Areva SA, the world’s biggest builder of nuclear reactors, said it will study the feasibility of building a second nuclear generating station in New Brunswick and of creating a new “clean energy” park on the same site. Continue reading →

July 10, 2010 Posted by | business and costs, Canada | , , , , , , | Leave a comment

AREVA’s “clean energy” strategy to sell its nuclear reactors

Areva finds a third site to combine nuclear and renewable electric power, POWER-GEN , 8 July 2010 — Areva, the province of New Brunswick and New Brunswick Power signed a letter of intent to develop a “clean energy park” near the Point Lepreau nuclear station in Canada. The project represents the third such project that would be developed by Areva. The site would feature a mid-sized generation III+ nuclear plant and renewable energy sources all built by Areva. Power would be used in the province and exported to the Canadian Maritime region and to New England. Areva said the agreement further validates the clean energy park concept to build new CO2-free energy facilities. AREVA is working on similar developments near Piketon, Ohio with Duke Energy and Fresno, Calif. with FNEG.

July 9, 2010 Posted by | Canada, spinbuster | , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Conviction on transporting nuclear materials to Iran

Canadian convicted of shipping nuclear materials to Iran, Need to know – Macleans.ca, Mahmoud Yadegari tried to send transducers to native Iran  , July 6, 2010 A Canadian man was found guilty in a Toronto court on Tuesday of shipping materials to Iran that could be used in nuclear technology. Mahmoud Yadegari is the first person convicted of violating U.N. regulations that restrict the export of certain goods to Iran. Yadegari’s arrest last April followed several unsuccessful attempts to ship transducers to his native Iran. The Toronto man faces a maximum of five years in prison for his offences, which also include convictions on eight other counts, including forgery and violations of the Customs Act.National Post

Canadian convicted of shipping nuclear materials to Iran – Need to know – Macleans.ca

July 7, 2010 Posted by | Canada, Legal | , , , | Leave a comment

AREVA hypes nuclear power as “clean” and “green”

“Their sales pitch is they’d like to build a clean, green energy park,…….New Brunswick’s existing nuclear generating station is undergoing a major refurbishment by AECL to extend the life of the reactor by another 25 years, but the project is at least 18 months behind schedule and well over budget…

(Canada) Lepreau expansion could include green energy park, Lepreau expansion could include green energy park – Nova Scotia News By KEVIN BISSETT T  Jun 29 -FREDERICTON — If a second nuclear reactor is built in New Brunswick, it would come with benefits for other energy sources in the form of an “energy park,” Energy Minister Jack Keir said Monday. Keir is in Florida for meetings with top officials of French nuclear engineering group Areva, including Jacques Besnainou, the company’s CEO.

Areva approached the province late last year with a proposal to build a reactor next to the existing Candu unit at Point Lepreau and export power to the United States.

“Their sales pitch is they’d like to build a clean, green energy park,…….New Brunswick’s existing nuclear generating station is undergoing a major refurbishment by AECL to extend the life of the reactor by another 25 years, but the project is at least 18 months behind schedule and well over budget…

July 1, 2010 Posted by | Canada, spinbuster | Leave a comment

AREVA new nuclear plant an expensive pipe-dream

Province doesn’t need another reactor, telegraphjournal.com , DAVID BEAUDIN, New Brunswick, Canada, 29 June 2010, “……..the provincial government is actively negotiating with Areva to construct Lepreau II.Considering the financial, technical and power generating debacle resulting from the attempted refurbishment of the Lepreau nuclear plant, one sincerely hoped that the government would, at least be “once bitten, twice shy.” New Brunswick has no need for the power to be produced by a second nuclear plant. It’s for export, part of the political “energy hub” pipedream. Continue reading →

July 1, 2010 Posted by | business and costs, Canada | , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Canada’s uranium likely to help India’s nuclear weapons

Worry grows over Sask. uranium exports, CBC News 1 july 20201, – Fears that Saskatchewan uranium may be used in weapons have been triggered by a newly signed export agreement with India.Prime Minister Stephen Harper signed a nuclear co-operation agreement on Sunday with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who was in Toronto for the G20 summit. It allows for uranium exports to India and technological exchanges that could be worth billions to Canada’s nuclear industry.Ann Coxworth, of the Saskatchewan Environmental Society, said she fears the federal deal could make it possible for Saskatchewan’s uranium to end up in weapons.”We need to very seriously consider whether exporting uranium around the world is the kind of business that we should be in,” said Coxworth………..Coxworth said the environmental society is working to raise public awareness in hopes of stopping the India deal…..Canada stopped nuclear co-operation with India in 1974 after the government used plutonium from a Canadian reactor to build an atomic bomb. CBC News – Saskatchewan – Worry grows over Sask. uranium exports

July 1, 2010 Posted by | Canada, politics international | , , , , , | Leave a comment

Investors pessimistic about uranium shares

Stalled price tanks stocks | The Energy Collective 29 June Uranium price likely to remain flat for next few years –  falling prices”…..A review of 12 Canadian uranium mining stocks – three producers and nine juniors – show a dismaying trend since December 2009.
Every quarter FCW compiles tracking information on stock prices across a selected list of producers and juniors. The trends for these companies as of June 11, 2010, is an unmistakable dive from prior values. Of the 12 stocks on our list , seven have seen their prices drop by more than 20% and three have seen their stock prices drop by more than 10%……..

“The lack of movement of uranium price is the reason investors are not active. There is no incentive to invest if there is no movement in the underlying commodity.”


July 1, 2010 Posted by | business and costs, Canada | , , | Leave a comment

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