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Earthquakes in northeast Canada rattled buildings in several cities Friday but had no effect on nearby nuclear facilities. A 5.2 magnitude quake was the largest of the tremors near Ottawa and struck at about 9:45 a.m. Its epicenter was about 50 miles from the Chalk River Laboratories, the birthplace...

Canada's Bruce Power recently celebrated two milestones at its Bruce A nuclear plant in Ontario. First, unit 4 broke a record, with 570 continuous days in operation before its recent service outage. And second, its restart last week brought all four reactors at Bruce A online following an extensive...

A recently published study of 3,000 uranium processing workers in Port Hope, Canada, found their overall incidence of cancer was actually lower than that of the Canadian population at large. The study involved men and women first employed between 1932 and 1980 in processing facilities that expose workers...

(Please visit the site to view this video) Canada's Bruce Power put together this film documenting an intensive exercise in October involving 71 organizations preparing for an emergency at a nuclear plant. It shows a newly built emergency management center reacting to various scenarios, including...

A fire broke out on New Year's Day in the turbine hall of the Pickering nuclear plant, Ontario Power Generation recently told Canadian media. On Friday, the Pickering News Advertiser quoted an OPG spokesman as saying the fire started at about 9 p.m. in a lube oil purification system at unit 1, which...

Hydro-Quebec's Gentilly 2 nuclear plant ceased power production Friday and will begin decommissioning in January. By the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's account, 800 jobs will ultimately be affected, with temporary workers at the plant laid off immediately. Decommissioning activities will...

Babcock & Wilcox has announced plans to lay off 90 workers at its manufacturing plant in Cambridge, Canada. The positions amount to about 30 percent of the Ontario plant's unionized hourly workforce, the Waterloo Record reported. The layoffs will take effect in January, and a B&W spokeswoman...

Canada has reappointed the head of the organization that oversees nuclear power in that country. On Friday, the Canadian government appointed Michael Binder to serve another five-year term as president of the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission, according to a release. He has held the position since January...

In the coming months regulators in Canada will hold a public hearing on a storage facility for low- and intermediate-level nuclear waste – one of the last steps before permitting the first deep geologic repository in that country. As noted by Michigan Radio Tuesday, it is sited near Ontario Power...

Breaking a two-year impasse, heads of state from India and Canada have announced a deal that will allow the export of Canadian uranium to the subcontinent. With roughly 17 percent of the world's production in 2011, Canada is the second largest miner of uranium behind Kazakhstan. According to the...

About 1,200 members of Candu's workforce are back on the job after a recent contract agreement ended a lengthy strike. The Mississauga News reported Wednesday that the contract will replace the Society of Professional Engineers and Associates members' defined benefit pension with a defined contribution...

The Joint Review Panel (JRP) of the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) announced on Friday its decision to issue a Nuclear Power Reactor Site Preparation License to Ontario Power Generation Inc. (OPG) for its new nuclear power plant project at the Darlington nuclear site for a period of 10 years...

The Society of Professional Engineers and Associates (SPEA) is holding an information picket this morning in front of Bruce Power and Ontario Power Generation nuclear facilities to warn that critical technical expertise may not be available to support their long term operations. "Ontario's...

In what appears to be an embarrassing breach of its own rules, the Canadian agency that oversees nuclear safety lost a sample of cesium-137 in its downtown Ottawa office building for three weeks. Cs-137 can be used to calibrate dosimeters and for instrumentation and medical applications. The small sample...

As one of the companies under consideration to build a pair of new reactors near Toronto, Westinghouse announced Monday that it is preparing a range of detailed information for Ontario Power Generation to make the case for the AP1000 reactor. Deliverables include cost estimates, detailed construction...

Today, the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) announced its decision authorizing New Brunswick Power Nuclear (NBPN) to begin activities to restart the Point Lepreau Generating Station. At this stage, the station will not produce electricity, but will restart the reactor in order to perform several...

Nuclear engineers and scientists promised to picket facilities across Canada as the Society of Professional Engineers and Associates went on strike Monday. SNC-Lavalin acquired the rights to Canada's Candu heavy water reactor designs and purchased Candu's marketing business from state-controlled...

Canadian nuclear manufacturer Candu has announced the UK will study the use of its Enhanced Candu 6 reactor to generate power using MOX fuel. An additional facility producing the fuel would help draw down the country's 112 metric tons of surplus plutonium reprocessed from nuclear fuel during a program...

As negotiations continue to sour between Candu Energy and the union representing its workers, the Society of Professional Engineers and Associates said Wednesday that its members would refuse overtime and may strike. In a press release, the union said it “has given notice to SNC-Lavalin and the...

Rolls-Royce has completed delivery of an automated system for handling nuclear fuel at Canada’s Chalk River site. The company announced delivery of the final components to the Ontario lab on Wednesday. The system will allow Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. to remove radioactive fuel and move it to...

A small leak occurred within a building at the Gentilly 2 nuclear plant last week, Canadian regulators said Wednesday. On April 26, province-owned Hydro Quebec reported to the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission that the heavy water coolant leaked into the plant’s reactor building. According to...

The Canada Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Republic of Korea’s Nuclear Safety and Security Commission (KSSC) Tuesday in order to strengthen safety standards through technical cooperation and information exchange in nuclear regulatory matters...

During a ceremony at World Energy Council's World Energy Leadership Summit today in Istanbul, Canadian nuclear firm Candu Energy and Turkish state power generator EUAS signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) regarding the construction of a new nuclear plant at the Black Sea port of Sinop. "Today's...

Rising electricity supplies and short-term lulls in power demand have left grid operators in Ontario, Canada, considering the inopportune step of temporarily shutting down reactors to regulate power supplies. At an industry event, the head of the province's Independent Electricity System Operator...

Two Canadian agencies issued approvals for Strateco’s Matoush uranium project last week, paving the way for final approval from the country’s top nuclear regulator. On Thursday the minister of the environment issued a federal environmental assessment favorable to the project and the mitigation...