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Re: [ATM] Barnesite Re: industrial polishing pads?
Canada's first nuclear power plant, a partnership between AECL and Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario, went online in 1962 near the site of Chalk River Labs. This reactor, Nuclear Power Demonstration (NPD), was a demonstration of the CANDU design, one of the world's safest and most successful nuclear reactors.
Chalk River was also the site of two nuclear accidents in the 1950s. The first incident occurred in 1952, when there was a power surge and partial loss of coolant in the NRX reactor which resulted in significant damage to the core. Future US president Jimmy Carter, then a US Navy serviceman, was part of the clean up crew. [1][2]
The second accident, in 1958, involved a fuel rupture and fire in the NRU reactor building. Both accidents required a major cleanup effort involving many civilian and military personnel. Follow-up health monitoring of these workers has not revealed any adverse impacts from the two accidents.[3][4] However, the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility, an anti-nuclear watchdog group, notes that some cleanup workers who were part of the military contingent assigned to the NRU reactor building unsuccessfully applied for a military disability pension due to health damages.[5]
Chalk River Labs remain an AECL facility to this day and are used as both a research (in partnership with the NRC) and production facility (on behalf of AECL) in support of other Canadian electrical utilities.
George Anderson
Montreal Canada
Clear skies and good health
----- Original Message -----
From: Richard <cnc@cncservo.co.uk>
Date: Thursday, March 27, 2008 11:54 am
Subject: Re: [ATM] Barnesite Re: industrial polishing pads?
To: fundo <atm@atmlist.net>
> Hi Dan,
>
> Thursday, March 27, 2008, 3:34:46 PM, you wrote:
>
> Dan> Few Americans know that we had the first commercial nuclear
> Dan> generating facility online in 1957 at Shippingport, PA (on the
> Dan> Ohio River NW if Pittsburgh).
>
> "On 17 October 1956, Her Majesty the Queen opened Reactor number
> 1 at
> Calder Hall, UK, bringing into service the world's first industrial
> scale nuclear power station"
>
> :p :)
>
>
> --
>
> Best regards,
> Richard in the UK
>
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