[All] Darlington Rebuild info

[Louisette Lanteigne]

Hello everyone
I just finished a webonair with Greenpeace about the Darlington Rebuild OPG hearings coming up in November. Here are some of the key points of that meeting: 
   
   - Construction of Darlington took place 1981 to 1993. Old building codes used in a facility built prior to the Chernobyl nuclear power plant (1983).   

   - OPG are applying for a 13 year licencing renewal at Darlington with no upgrades to the design or bump up to existing safety requirements. (13 year applications are unheard of til now)   

   - Most permits for new build for nuclear are from 2-5 years. This facilitates greater public scrutiny on existing projects beyond the scope of simply regulator/industry monitoring.   

   - The 13 year permit would omit public participation and isolate scrutiny to simply regulators and industry for that time period and would allow for the rebuild of all 4 nuclear reactors at Darlington.   

   - Potassium Iodine pills have been distributed to 200,000 people 10km radius to the Darlington Plant but there is no science to support that delineation. A similar plant in Switzerland distributed their iodine pills 50km radius based on INES incident of 7, similar to the impacts of the Fukushima disaster.
   - There are no cost estimates for alternative energy comparisons nor are their any plans to bump up emissions targets.   

   - The word is experiencing one large scale nuclear disaster every decade.    

   - Public demand facililtated a report by the OPG which outlined the consequences of a hypothetical nuclear disaster similar to Fukushima. The report has since been CENSORED. It was an "inconvient truth" which the OPG director stated could be used "malevolently in a public hearing."   

   - There was a censored version of the report that scaled down releases to a small nuclear accident rather than INES 7 event. (evident in the msv levels.)   

   - Neither the Province nor municipalities have access to the uncensored report of the INES 7 event.    

   - Federal government has jurisdictional power for nuclear incidents on site. It also falls under the jurisdiction of the OPG to manage these incidents.   

   - The Province has jurisdictional power for offsite public safety issues related to nuclear accidents.   

   - The liability cap for nuclear accidents is 1 Billion dollars as noted in the Nuclear Safety and Control Act. After that the Feds need to cover costs.    

   - The Provincial Nuclear Response Plan mandates municipalities to have their own nuclear response plans but the size and scales of anticipated nuclear events are subjective. Cities like Markham, lack a plan altogether.    

   - Fukushima's accident had impacts that extended 100km radius. 

To have a say on Darlington Nuclear Power Plant extension, folks must submit their written concerns or register for the OPG hearing by the September 28/2015 deadline. The hearings take place on Nov. 2nd to Nov. 5th. 
People are encouraged to participate. Other follow up actions include:   
   - Notifying your MP, MPP and Council members to demand the release of the INES 7 nuclear disaster impact report    

   - Approaching local councils to bump up their municipal plans for nuclear safety   


For more information visit here: http://nuclearsafety.gc.ca/eng/resources/status-of-new-nuclear-projects/darlington/index.cfmTo contact a Greenpeace spokes person contact Fawn Edwards here: fawn.edwards at greenpeace.org
Lulu :0) 
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