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• Bruce files for new reactor in Alberta

  It is the Lac Cardinal nuclear power plant The Daily Construction News in Ottawa reports the wheels have been set in motion to build Western Canada’s first nuclear power plant. After purchasing Energy Albrerta, Bruce Power Alberta has filed an application with the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission for the construction of Alberta's first nuclear power plant. The proposed plant would be built on... Posted Apr 08 2008, 11:11 PM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: Energy Alberta, Bruce Power

• Bruce Power doubles its bet in Alberta

  New customers and limits on natural gas for tar sands region may make the difference Bloomberg wire service reports that Bruce Power , the only non- government owner of a Canadian nuclear plant, filed an application to prepare a site for the first nuclear power plant in Alberta. The wire service reported that the plant would have as many as four reactors and generation capacity of up to 4,000 megawatts... Posted Mar 14 2008, 06:49 AM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: AECL, Energy Alberta, ACR-1000, Bruce Power

• Bruce Power to acquire Energy Alberta

  Yet another try to supply nuclear energy to the tar sands region Bruce Power has signed a letter of intent to purchase the nuclear assets of Energy Alberta , which has already begun preliminary work on a proposal to construct a nuclear power plant in Alberta. Bruce Power owns and operates the Bruce nuclear power plant in Ontario and is itself owned by a group of partners including TransCanada and Cameco... Posted Nov 30 2007, 11:07 AM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: Energy Alberta, Bruce Power

• TransCanada checks out nuclear energy in Alberta

  TransCanada might jump on nuclear bandwagon TransCanada Corp. says it is cautiously looking to join the short list of companies interested in Alberta's soaring power needs and seeking to meet them with nuclear energy. The Calgary-based company allows that it is doing "detailed homework" to assess whether to pursue nuclear energy. They're not alone. Rivals in the nuclear energy business... Posted Nov 04 2007, 05:53 PM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: Areva, Energy Alberta, TransCanada

• Baloney detection for nuclear new builds

  You can't tell the players without a scorecard In 2001 Michael Shermer, a columnist for Scientific American, introduced the concept of baloney detection , which is the fine art of detecting fraud in the scientific and engineering realms. Schermer asks five questions which are appropriate for assessing the legitimacy of a claim. In the case of nuclear energy, baloney detection is unusually appropriate... Posted Oct 30 2007, 10:18 AM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: Fresno Nuclear Energy Group, AEHI, Energy Alberta, Michael Shermer, baloney detection, NRG Energy, Transition Power Utah

• Energy Alberta's "trick or treat" marketing tactic

  Wayne Henuset trys waving the carbon tax flag at oilmen Here's a new way to sell a nuclear reactor to the oil and gas industry in Alberta's tar sands. Scare them. That's right, use old fashioned fear, uncertainty, and doubt also known as FUD. Wave the threat of carbon taxes and tell the oil firms the only way they'll continue to be able to get oil from the tar sands in the future is to buy nuclear... Posted Sep 23 2007, 10:11 PM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: Energy Alberta, tar sands, carbon taxes, Wayne Henuset

• Abstract - Reactors Set for Alberta Tar Sands

  Energy Alberta Reaches for the Brass Ring By Dan Yurman, Contributing Reporter Fuel Cycle Week V6 N245 September 11, 2007 Energy Alberta, an entrepreneurial merchant utility, said in late August that it had filed an application with the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission to build a nuclear power plant in Alberta that would be fully operational in 10 years. The firm, which is based in Calgary, Alberta... Posted Sep 12 2007, 09:36 AM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: AECL, Energy Alberta, tar sands, ACR-1000

• Energy Alberta files for tar sands reactors

  Shell Oil is said to be the first customer Reuters reports that Energy Alberta Corp. said it filed an application with the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission to build a nuclear power plant in Alberta that aims to be in service within 10 years. The Calgary, Alberta-based company said its application is for two twin-unit ACR-1000 advanced Candu reactors just west of Peace River in northern Alberta. Energy... Posted Sep 08 2007, 11:55 PM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: Shell Oil, Energy Alberta, tar sands