Report: picture of Fukushima-scale nuclear accident in Picke

Report: picture of Fukushima-scale nuclear accident in Picke

Postby Oscar » Wed Mar 14, 2018 9:02 pm

Report paints grim picture of Fukushima-scale nuclear accident in Pickering

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A Fukushima-scale nuclear incident at Pickering would mean the loss of 154,000 Toronto-area homes for up to 100 years, says an environmental group.

By TESS KALINOWSKI Toronto Star Staff Reporter Sun., March 11, 2018

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A Fukushima-scale meltdown at the Pickering nuclear power plant would exact a devastating human and economic toll on the province, causing 26,000 cases of cancer — nearly half of them fatal — and the evacuation of 154,000 homes in York and Durham regions and east Toronto.

Some areas would be uninhabitable for 100 years.

Losses from uninsured housing alone would be in the range of $125 billion.

That’s the catastrophic scenario outlined in a report by the Ontario Clean Air Alliance, [ http://www.cleanairalliance.org/wp-cont ... March8.pdf ] published on Sunday to coincide with the seventh anniversary of the earthquake that triggered the Japanese nuclear disaster. [ https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2011 ... doors.html ]

The non-profit coalition, which opposes nuclear power generation, wants Ontario to dismantle its oldest nuclear generating station in Pickering and buy water-generated electricity from Hydro Quebec. But provincially-owned Ontario Power Generation (OPG) has applied to have the Pickering plant’s operating licence extended beyond its Aug. 31 expiry.

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