Building a clean, green grid

Pickering’s big– and growing — waste problem

2019-03-20T13:59:02-04:00June 27, 2018|

The Pickering Nuclear Station has enough plutonium in waste onsite to arm 11,000 atomic warheads. With no long-term waste solution in sight, it is irresponsible to continue to add radioactive waste to the huge pile already on the waterfront at the station.

A Fukushima-level Nuclear Disaster at Pickering

2022-01-13T15:35:24-05:00March 10, 2018|

This expert report finds that a Fukushima-level disaster at the Pickering Nuclear plant would result in an estimated 26,000 cancer cases, of which roughly half would be fatal.  Large areas of the Greater Toronto Area would need to be evacuated and would become uninhabitable in some cases for 100 years or more. 

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