Pickering Nuclear Generating Station (Pickering, Ontario)

Canada / Ontario / Brooklin / Pickering, Ontario / Montgomery Park Road
 electricity - to be replaced / deleted, nuclear power plant
Located on the shores of Lake Ontario just east of Toronto and nestled in the community of Pickering, is one of the world's largest nuclear generating facilities consisting of the Pickering A and Pickering B Nuclear Generating Stations.

Pickering A has two operating CANDU (CANadian Deuterium Uranium) reactors and Pickering B has four operating CANDU reactors. Together these stations have a total output of 3,100 megawatts (MW), enough to serve a city of one and a half million people.

www.opg.com/power/nuclear/pickering/
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pickering_Nuclear_Generating_Station
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Coordinates:   43°48'38"N   79°3'45"W

Comments

  • great.. nuclear!
  • I have been there twice, and enjoyed myself immensly.
  • I worked there once and found it was the most poisoned workplace ever. "SCR" this, SCR that.... Constant questioning attitutes and as for those that dont know why there electric bill is so high, that because they waste an unreal amout of money everywhere!! Someone should look into that.
  • We go nuclear or freeze in the dark. People against nuclear are always the ones who know, or understand very little about the technology - CANDU reactors are by far the safest in the world. That comes at a price. You think that sitting in traffic during rush hour on the 401 is any less poisonous?
  • The description should reflect the fact that only 6 of the reactors are currently running. Pickering A units 2 and 3 have been permanently mothballed thanks to the Ontario government.
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