CBC: Problems at French nuclear construction site for company seeking Ontario contract

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http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/story/2008/04/03/ont-nuclear.html

Problems at French nuclear construction site for company seeking Ont. contract

Last Updated: Thursday, April 3, 2008 | 8:43 AM ET Comments3Recommend7
CBC News

One of the companies competing to build new nuclear reactors in Ontario has run into trouble with regulators in France.

The French nuclear safety watchdog says there are a number of serious infractions in the Areva construction of a reactor in northern France - the same type of reactor it wants to sell to Ontario.

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The agency says there was inadequate preparatory work before pouring concrete; the concrete base was smaller than promised; and reinforcing rods weren't up to standard.

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"I think it shows the shoddy workmanship that Areva's doing building the reactors overseas," said Sean Patrick Stensil, Greenpeace's nuclear expert in Ontario. "And that should make Ontario ask, 'Would you want to buy or do you trust Areva to build a reactor here in Ontario?'"

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[NNadir]

1. Are you claiming to know something about nuclear standards?

This should be cute.

How about dangerous fossil fuel standards?

Maybe you would like to tell us how many people died at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa earthquake about which dumb fundie anti-nukes were having paroxysms of ignorance and joy?

Any idea how many people were killed by the dangerous fossil fuels that replaced the reactor while it's being repaired?

No?

You couldn't care less about the huge failures of the dangerous fossil fuel industry.

How many dumb fundie anti-nukes complain when a dangerous fossil fuel pipeline explodes, or a coal mine collapses?

Let's try this number: Zero.

That, by the way, is the same number of people that have been killed by nuclear accidents in France.

Nuclear doesn't have to be perfect to be better than everything else, except of course, in fundie land. It merely needs to be better than everything else and it is.

But the dumb fundies should stop worrying. According to their ersatz Jesus, Amory Lovins, nuclear power is dying a natural death. Every reactor costs one brazillion brazillion brazillion dollars and the brazillion brazillion brazillion brazillion Hydrogen Hummer solar roofs in California.

http://www.energy.ca.gov/electricity/ELECTRICITY_GEN_1983-2006.XLS

Ignorance kills.