This week Shane and I talked about recent nuclear developments in Canada, about the Ontario energy plan, and about technical choices and opportunities in the nuclear energy business in Canada.
We discuss the potential use of CANDU technology for tar sands oil production and the potential use of SLOWPOKE reactors for district heating systems.
During the show we promised a link to the recent Living on Earth segment on new nuclear power plants. You can find it under the title of Living on Earth: New Nukes for North America.
We welcome your comments. As a matter of fact, the topic for this show was a direct result of a request by one of our listeners following last week’s show about nuclear power in Europe.
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I knew I goofed up some numbers somewhere. The Slowpoke-3 had a designed time between refuelings of 3 years, not 10 or 20. Still pretty cool.
http://www.nuclearfaq.ca/cnf_sectionH.htm#g3
Hey Rod, I’m plugging your podcast at my speech, as we mentioned in our last email. Take care!
By the way everybody, here’s a link to “The One-Hoss Shay” that I mentioned, by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
http://www.williamson-labs.com/one-hoss-shay.htm
Pretty good summary of the Canadian situation. Good work. The upcoming decision in Ontario about what technology to use for new systems will be significant. They have to choose CANDU if they want AECL to survive. It will be interesting.