<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1438794695095_2249">Hello everyone</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1438794695095_2249"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1438794695095_2249">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: </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1438794695095_2249"><br></div><ul dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1438794695095_5998"><li id="yui_3_16_0_1_1438794695095_6013">Construction of Darlington took place 1981 to 1993. Old building codes used in a facility built prior to the Chernobyl nuclear power plant (1983).<br></li><li id="yui_3_16_0_1_1438794695095_6012">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)<br></li><li id="yui_3_16_0_1_1438794695095_6011">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.<br></li><li id="yui_3_16_0_1_1438794695095_6010">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.<br></li><li id="yui_3_16_0_1_1438794695095_6009">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.</li><li id="yui_3_16_0_1_1438794695095_6007">There are no cost estimates for alternative energy comparisons nor are their any plans to bump up emissions targets.<br></li><li id="yui_3_16_0_1_1438794695095_6006">The word is experiencing one large scale nuclear disaster every decade. <br></li><li id="yui_3_16_0_1_1438794695095_6005">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."<br></li><li id="yui_3_16_0_1_1438794695095_6004">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.)<br></li><li id="yui_3_16_0_1_1438794695095_6003">Neither the Province nor municipalities have access to the uncensored report of the INES 7 event. <br></li><li id="yui_3_16_0_1_1438794695095_6002">Federal government has jurisdictional power for nuclear incidents on site. It also falls under the jurisdiction of the OPG to manage these incidents.<br></li><li id="yui_3_16_0_1_1438794695095_6001">The Province has jurisdictional power for offsite public safety issues related to nuclear accidents.<br></li><li id="yui_3_16_0_1_1438794695095_6000">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. <br></li><li id="yui_3_16_0_1_1438794695095_5999">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. <br></li><li id="yui_3_16_0_1_1438794695095_5997">Fukushima's accident had impacts that extended 100km radius. </li></ul><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1438794695095_2249" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1438794695095_2249" dir="ltr">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. </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1438794695095_2249" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1438794695095_2249" dir="ltr">People are encouraged to participate. Other follow up actions include:</div><ul dir="ltr"><li>Notifying your MP, MPP and Council members to demand the release of the INES 7 nuclear disaster impact report <br></li><li>Approaching local councils to bump up their municipal plans for nuclear safety<br></li></ul><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1438794695095_2249" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1438794695095_2249" dir="ltr">For more information visit here: <a href="http://nuclearsafety.gc.ca/eng/resources/status-of-new-nuclear-projects/darlington/index.cfm" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1438794695095_5849">http://nuclearsafety.gc.ca/eng/resources/status-of-new-nuclear-projects/darlington/index.cfm</a></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1438794695095_2249" dir="ltr">To contact a Greenpeace spokes person contact Fawn Edwards here: fawn.edwards@greenpeace.org</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1438794695095_2249" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1438794695095_2249" dir="ltr">Lulu :0)</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1438794695095_2249"> </div></div></body></html>