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Canadian CANDU

Why Should I Be Proud of the CANDU Achievement?

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General Information on nuclear and CANDU

  • Ontario Power Generation versus the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant: Why You Made the Right Choice! (595 kB pdf) A presentation given at the OPG student orientation comparing how the nuclear plant Homer Simpson works at stacks up to practices and performance at OPG's CANDU stations.

  • CANDU: A Canadian Achievement (19 kB pdf) A presentation given to OPG university co-op students outlining the measure of achievement represented by the CANDU reactor.

  • CANDU: A Canadian Achievement (1.0 MB pdf) Graphically intensive version of above presentation.

    • Historical Information on CANDU

  • The Canadian Nuclear FAQ (unofficial)- Amazingly diverse history and factual encyclopedia for the Canadian nuclear industry

    • Technical Information on CANDU

  • The Canadian Nuclear FAQ (unofficial)- Amazingly diverse history and factual encyclopedia for the Canadian nuclear industry

    • But What About the Waste?

  • High Level Radioactive Waste Disposal: Background and The Canadian Proposal (557 kB pdf) A presentation given to OPG university co-op detailing the waste produced by nuclear reactors in Canada and the safe, long-term disposal concept for burial in the Canadian Shield.

    • Where Can I Find Out More?

    Some great books can be found and ordered in CNS Publications including easy to read ("Bluebells and Nuclear Energy", A.B. Reynolds, 1996, and "Nuclear Power: Villain or Victim? Our Most Misunderstood Source of Electricity", M.W. Carbon, 1997).

  • Atomic Energy of Canada Limited - Canada's flagship nuclear company, designer of the CANDU reactor.
  • BrucePower - British Energy's Canadian partner operating 8 Candu Reactors at Bruce.
  • Hydro Québec - Quebec's chief power utility operating the Gentilly-2 Candu-6 reactor.
  • India Nuclear Power Corporation - 12 Candu-like Pressurized Heavy Water Reactors (PHWRs) operating, and 4 PHWR's under construction.
  • Korea Electric Power Corporation - Operator of 4 Candu-6 reactors at the Wolsung nuclear complex.
  • New Brunswick Power - New Brunswick's chief power utility operating the Point Lepreau Candu-6 reactor.
  • Nuclearelectrica Romania - Home of the Cernavoda power complex, with 1 operating Candu-6 reactor, and 4 under construction.
  • Nucleoelectrica Argentina S.A. - Home of the Embalse Candu-3 reactor and Atucha I (operating) and II (under construction) PHWR's.
  • Ontario Power Generation - Main energy producer for Ontario's open market operating 12 Candu Reactors at Pickering and Darlington.
  • Qinshan Nuclear Power Corporation - 2 Candu-6 reactors under construction.

    • Please feel free to contact Adam McLean (adam.mclean@utoronto.ca) with any suggestions for page content.

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