Reality Check - Is a Candu really the answer...

[Oscar]

In response to the Reality Check article, “Is a Candu really the answer for Alberta's oilsands?” written by Robert Sheppard on January 11, 2007

http://www.cbc.ca:80/news/background/re ... 70111.html

EXCERPT:

“A nuclear option of one sort or another has been floating around the oil patch for at least a decade. But this time it's a bit different, there is a real plan on the table.
Two Calgary-based entrepreneurs, Wayne Henuset and Hank Swartout formed Energy Alberta Corp. and teamed up with Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. to promote the Candu-6 as the answer to the vast energy needs of the oilsands.
Henuset, the president of the company, said in an interview the group is building the project around two Candu-6 reactors, which would produce a total of 1,400 megawatts of power and which would be built together smack in the middle of oilsands country, just south of Fort McMurray.
The projected capital cost is roughly $4.5 billion and the reason for the centralized location is that one of the biggest needs of oilsands extractors is high-pressure steam, and steam from a central plant such as this only has an effective range of about 24 kilometres when delivered through pipelines.”

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Reader Comments:

There's a nifty little article written by Watt Patterson in April 2006 entitled Nuclear Amnesia at: http://www.waltpatterson.org/nucamnesia.pdf

It's time for ALL nuke-pushers to READ IT!

And, Mr. Henuset should stick to making wine.

Obviously, he has a long, long way to go before he will begin to understand what uranium is and does, and the madness denoted by his ghoulish daydreams for a nuke-plant in the middle of Alberta!

Hasn't this freakish activity done enough damage yet to what was once a pristine wilderness?

Or, is it in such a mess that even contaminating it forever with uranium doesn't matter???

Elaine Hughes
Archerwill, SK


Related Articles:

Nuclear pitch for oil sands
http://www.sqwalk.com/blog2006/000835.html

Firm pushing nuke plants to heat sticky oilsands
http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/n ... b22&k=6642

Alberta nuke for oilsands steam - seeking buyers
http://world-nuclear.blogspot.com/2006/ ... steam.html

Energetic Time
http://calsun.canoe.ca/News/Columnists/ ... 32449.html

[Oscar]

Uhhhhh....Reality Check????

Isn't there a tiny issue of radioactive nuclear waste, with a half-life of tens of thousands of years and no safe method of storage??"

Bill Prouten
Fort McMurray

[Oscar]

Note: This letter is in response to the article Nuclear Power Part of Green Energy Plan, in the Penticton Herald, January 18th, 2007.

January 19th, 2007

To The Editor,

Canada cannot solve its own energy problems by poisoning the rest of the world, and just because we -- your neighbor to the south -- have made a foolish decision about nuclear energy is no reason for you to do so, too. Learn from our mistakes: Someone should!

Any statement anyone ever makes claiming nuclear power is "green" is a half-truth, but the most offensive statement in Penticton Herald article was the claim that nuclear power is "emission-free." That's certainly not true when an accident occurs, and it's not true any other time, either.

For example, a radioactive substance called tritium is released from every reactor, in quantities nuclear proponents call "minute" but which should be called "enormous," as my in-depth look at tritium reveals (see URL, below). Furthermore, pro-nukers call this substance "harmless" but again, a little research reveals that to be an UTTER FALLACY. Or an outright lie.

Canada's CANDU reactors are by far the WORST tritium polluters, releasing about twenty times more tritium each year than typical American reactors do.

And its no wonder that Canada's tritium standards are correspondingly lax, although they apparently could not get away with having them twenty times more lax; they are "only" about ten times more lax (7,000 Bq per liter of drinking water, versus the US EPA's stricter standard of 740 Becquerel of tritium per liter of drinking water).

Were Canada's standards more strict, the CANDU reactors could not operate. The standard is set where it is to ALLOW the CANDU reactors to operate, NOT to protect the public!

In reality, both the American standard and the Canadian standard are way too lax. And in reality, tritium is only one of a RAINBOW of radioactive elements which are released from every reactor, either on a daily basis or during "unusual" venting operations -- these "unusual events" occur with regularity; they are, in reality,nothing more than PLANNED RELEASES.

Nuclear power is extremely expensive, extremely dangerous, extremely unreliable, and can only be supported by misinformation. The public must be constantly fooled or they WILL turn against nuclear power. Why? Because the more you know about radiation, the more likely it is that your survival instinct will take over.

Sincerely,

Ace Hoffman
Carlsbad, CA

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