'Nuclear Dinosaurs' Roam New Brunswick, Ontario as 'Jurassic

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'Nuclear Dinosaurs' Roam New Brunswick, Ontario as 'Jurassic' Partnership Looms

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Susan O'Donnell and Mark Winfield - March 29, 2028

Special to The Energy Mix [ https://www.theenergymix.com/nuclear-di ... hip-looms/ ]

QUOTE: "Two lonely nuclear dinosaurs finding each other in the Jurassic forest: perhaps an appropriate image for a planned partnership between NB Power and Ontario Power Generation (OPG).

Each is stuck in the past, the only two utilities left in Canada operating nuclear power reactors. Both have rejected modern, efficient, decentralized, nimble, distributed energy systems powered by low-cost renewable energy in favour of keeping their aging CANDU reactors alive. Together, the two lumbering public utilities plan to bring forth a revitalized New Brunswick Point Lepreau reactor, hoping their new progeny will reverse its previous ailing fortunes. . . .

Why would OPG, whose mandate to undertake out-of-province business activities is at best unclear, and which is deeply engaged in its own reactor refurbishment megaprojects at the Darlington and Pickering B nuclear plants, want to take on a money loser like the Lepreau reactor in the long term? . . . ."

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