[The Star, 31 October] Bruce Power is expected to announce an application to prepare a site for nuclear build today. The company's president and CEO, Duncan Hawthorne, is thought to be ready to announce the move at an event in the vicinity of the site, which sits alongside Lake Erie. The application, to the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission, would be the first step in a five-year process which could end with a nuclear power plant sitting next to a shut-down coal-fired plant. Coal power is being phased out, with the Nanticoke plant set to close by 2015, according to the energy policies of the Canadian province of Ontario. Any new nuclear plant would likely not operate until around 2020.
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