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telegraphjournal.com - Lepreau safety incidents reported | Rob Linke - Breaking News, N... - 0 views

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    A surprisingly high concentration of deuterium gas discovered in the cooling system at the Point Lepreau nuclear plant could have harmed personnel and damaged equipment last May had it exploded. Deuterium can explode in air if it reaches a concentration of five per cent, and a sample taken at Lepreau on May 23, 2008 was 6.4 per cent. But the gas was in a closed system of tubes and lacked an ignition source as the reactor was offline.
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Storing nuclear waste a $24-billion problem - 0 views

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    There are two million high-level radioactive fuel bundles sitting at temporary storage sites in Canada, as the Nuclear Waste Management Organization wrestles with the mandate of finding a community to host a central storage facility for the waste for perhaps tens of thousands of years. More than 120,000 high-level radioactive fuel bundles are stored at the Point Lepreau nuclear power plant in New Brunswick. (Canadian Press)More than 120,000 high-level radioactive fuel bundles are stored at the Point Lepreau nuclear power plant in New Brunswick. (Canadian Press) Throw in the fact that the cost of storing this nuclear waste could be up to $24 billion - a figure that will likely rise - and environmental groups are dead set against a central facility, and it shapes up to be a challenge of colossal proportions. The process of finding a site to bury the high-level spent fuel has dragged on for decades as reactors keep churning out more spent bundles.
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dailygleaner.com - Graham pitches Ottawa for help to deal with Lepreau expenses | By AN... - 0 views

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    "Premier Shawn Graham says the federal government appears to be softening its stance toward the repair delays and cost overruns at the Point Lepreau nuclear power plant. Graham was in Ottawa on Tuesday to meet with Prime Minister Stephen Harper and federal ministers. At the top of the premier's agenda was the Point Lepreau plant, which is being refurbished by federal Crown corporation Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. AECL originally promised to complete the refurbishment last fall. But in September, it announced the repairs would cost $1.4 billion, much more than initially expected, and won't be finished until roughly February 2011."
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Costly Lepreau nuclear plant refit may extend into 2010: VP - 0 views

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    NB Power says it can no longer predict exactly when the Point Lepreau nuclear power plant will be up and running again - and for every day it's delayed it costs the province $670,000 to replace the electricity the plant would normally produce. The $1.4-billion project was supposed to be finished by this September, a date that was first pushed back to December and is now in danger of running into next year. Gaëtan Thomas, NB Power's vice-president nuclear, said Thursday that picking a completion date is no longer possible.
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timestranscript.com - Lepreau refurbishment delays could cost $90M - Breaking News, New... - 0 views

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    Ratepayers will pay most of bill for nuclear plant upgrades FREDERICTON - If they weren't stuck with the bill, ratepayers might be able to sympathize with surprise costs that face NB Power's refurbishment project at Point Lepreau. The refurbishment project is currently running three to four months behind schedule, at a cost of about $20 million per month to ratepayers. Each extra day will cost an extra $1 million in replacement fuel, and CEO David Hay says NB Power is on track to pay between $70 million to $90 million in unexpected replacement fuel costs to replace power normally generated by the reactor during the period it is down.
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dailygleaner.com - Precision Nuclear meltdown? - 0 views

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    Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. will go to court today to force Precision Nuclear Inc. of Mactaquac into receivership. AECL is worried delays allegedly caused by the company could delay the Point Lepreau refurbishment. According to an affidavit filed in the Court of Queen's Bench in Saint John by Robert DeGregorio, supply chain director for the AECL, "a delay by PNI (Precision Nuclear Inc.) in the completion of its Point Lepreau obligations would result in a domino effect and cause delays in other phases of a very large and complex project."
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The Canadian Press: Rotors destined for nuclear power plant slide off barge into Saint ... - 0 views

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    Two huge turbine rotors destined for New Brunswick's Point Lepreau nuclear generating station are lying on the bottom of Saint John harbour after they somehow ended in the water as they were being loaded on to a barge Wednesday. Initial reports that said the barge had capsized were not true, said Mary Keith, a spokeswoman for Irving Equipment. "We don't know what caused these pieces of equipment to tip into the water," she said. No one was hurt in the morning incident, but officials of Worksafe New Brunswick were called in to investigate.
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