Dr. Gordon Edwards challenges CNSC on Pickering B extension

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WATCH: Dr. Gordon Edwards challenges CNSC on Pickering B extension

[ https://youtu.be/3um5AE2Daro ]

June 20, 2024 - 15 minutes

EXCERPT: "The four Pickering B reactors should have been refurbished or shut down years ago. OPG decided against both options.

As a result, those reactors are the most fragile CANDU reactors in the world, operating in the thick of Canada's most densely populated area.

The Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility argues that CNSC has published false information, drastically under-estimating the radioactive releases following a severe core damage accident at a CANDU reactor, leading to inadequate emergency planning and insufficient liability estimates. Yet OPG wants to extend operations for Pickering B another two years based on this false information. To approve such an extension would be contrary to the legal mandate of CNSC to protect the public and to disseminate only "objective information". "