HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1972-01-06, Page 12Preparations for production
have been initiated at the site of
one of Canada's most
challenging engineering
undertakings.
The Bruce Heavy Water Plant,
a major component of the Bruce
Nuclear Power Development, is
presently undergoing final
System checkouts and analysis as
operational crews prepare for
production start up. First
extraction of the precious liquid
is scheduled for the late summer
of 1972,
The Bruce Nuclear Power
Development, a joint-project of
Atomic Energy of Canada
Limited and Ontario Hydro,
occupies 2,30Q acres on the
shores of Lake Huron between
Kincardine and Port Elgin. When
all components are completed,
in the late 70s, the development
will include a 3,200,000
kilowatt nuclear generating
station, the heavy water plant,
and Douglas Point Nuclear
Power Station which is already
in operation.
With a capacity of 800 tons
per year, the heavy water plant
will be the major contributor of
heavy water which is so vital to
the Canadian Candu system of
the nuclear production of
electricity. The heavy water is
used to moderate the fission
process and as the primary heat
transporter.
Heavy water (D20) which is
found naturally in ordinary
water at about 1 part — 7,000 is
extracted from a gas/water
mixture in two sets of large
Tax rebates
to tenants,
homeowners up
$8 million
Municipal Affairs Minister
Dalton Bales announced today
that provincial tax rebates to
tenants and homeowners are
expected to reach $150 million
this year — $8 million more than
1970.
Homeowners have already
received their rebates as an
adjustment on their tax bills.
Tenants should receive cheques
for. tax reductions from
landlords by the Dec. 31
deadline,
Mr. Bales said: "The increase
in financial assistance towards
municipal and education taxes is
partly due to the increased
number of eligible households
and largely because of the rise in
property taxes last year.
"This means for the majority
of tenants and homeowners this
year's rebate will be more than
last year's. This is especially true
in major urban areas where the
level of municipal services
supported by property taxes is
highest," Mr. Bales said.
Under the residential
property tax reduction program,
the amount of rebate can
decrease by no more than $5
from one year to the next and
increase by no more than $15.
About 2,400,000 taxpayers
are eligible, for rebates this year.
Each eligible tenant or
homeowner receives $30 plus 10
percent of the average residential
taxes paid by all ratepayers in
the municipality in the prior
year.
Every owner or tenant of a
separately assessed residential
property is entitled to receive
the tax reduction. Tenants in
flats or basement apartments in
houses may not qualify because
the premises they rent are not
separately assessed, Roomers,
for example, are not eligible.
Tenants who move during the
year are entitled to a pro-rated
rebate equal to one-twelfth of
the total reduction for each
month's tenancy. If they did not
receive a pro-rated rebate within
30 days of moving, they should
contact their previous landlord.
"This year, as in the past, we
are receiving excellent
co-operation from landlords in
passing on the tax rebates to
tenants as evidenced by the
sharp drop in complaints and
enquiries received by my
Department," Mr. Bales said.
The Minister said experience
with the program during the past
four years has proved it is
appreciated in helping to reduce
the burden of municipal and
education taxes on tenants and
homeowners,
He added that the Province's
various property tax assistance
programs have reduced the
annual increase in property taxes
since 190 to almost half the
rate of increase during the
previous seven years.
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enriching towers and
concentrated to between 30-45%
deuterium (or heavy hydrogen),
Each set of the 275 foot tall
towers will produce 400 tons a
year of concentrated deuterium
oxide when in operation. The
30-45% concentration is then
moved to the finishing unit
where it is upgraded by a
distillation process to 99.75 per
cent purity for reactor use,
The 2.5 million pounds/hour
of steam required for the heavy
water extraction process can be
supplied by either Douglas Point
Nuclear Power Station or the
Auxiliary Steam Plant, to be
completed next month (Jan.
1972).
Aluminum cladding for
insulation has now been added
to the two sets of enriching
towers. Work on the first
enriching unit is well advanced
with the towers completed and
all the trays in place in enriching
unit one. Installation of piping is
proceeding and construction
tests are under way.
Erection of towers for the
second enriching plant is
complete and work is
progressing on the completion of
the pipe installations.
Construction of auxiliary
buildings such as the
administration and control
buildings, the service building,
and the utilities building is
completed, and these are- now
occupied by the operating staff,
The finishing unit, which is
completed and undergoing early
commissioning tests, could be
used to upgrade p20 recovered
from operational nuclear
stations until the first enriching
unit begins operation.
Ontario Hydro operating staff
is already established on the site
and training has started. The
plant is owned by Atomic
Energy of Canada Limited and
The Lummus Company Canada
Limited is acting as
Engineer-Constructor. •
STEAM PLANT
Each of the steam plant's
three boilers has a capacity of
835,000 pounds of steam per
hour. The plant is designed and
construction is being supervised
b y Montreal Engineering
Company Limited for AECL and
scheduled for full operation by
January.
First deliveries of fuel oil
were received at the plant in late
November. Since then, regular
unit trains have been arriving
on-site at the rate of two per
week.
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4A Clinton News-Record, Thursday, January 1972
Board of Education discusses Operational stage nears
elementary school grading for Heavy Water Plant
BY SHIRLEY J. KELLER
Modern concepts in education - some of
them well tried and proven throughout years
gone by were discussed Monday afternoon
at the regular meeting of the Huron County
Board of Education.
This was the third in a series of meetings
instituted by the board to create a better
understanding of things educational in the
county system. The topic was elementary
school grading procedures, and the
committee in charge was chaired by Arnold
Withers, principal of Huron, Centennial
School, Brucefield,
Others on the committee were Gary
Jewitt, vice-principal at Seaforth; Mrs.
Evelyn Merrill, Blyth PS; Miss Jane Dougall,
Usborne Central; Janet Bolton and Alex,
Robertson, both Grade S students at
Seaforth PS; Richard Jewson, Grade 13
student at Central Huron Secondary School,
Clinton; Harold Kinsely, superintendent,
board office; and Mrs. Marilyn Kunder,
board member, Seaforth.
"At the outset of this report, our
committee wishes to make its bias very
clear," said Arnold Mathers. "We believe
that the calibre of education in Huron
County is extremely high, that the teachers
are sincere and capable, and that the schools
are supported by a competent and dedicated
administration. Let us not lose sight of these
facts as we discuss this report."
"Secondly, our committee feels that the
successful introduction of new ideas into our
schools requires special care," he continued.
"When they are imposed, introduced by
edict, or when they are token innovations,
even the best ideas make little impact on
creating the conditions for improved
learning. However, we feel that there are
important innovations that every staff
should try."
Ten recommendations were made by the
committee to the board. They were to
encourage teachers to begin non-graded or
continuous progress programs in their
classrooms; to establish committees of
teachers on a short-term basis to study
non-graded procedures; to provide time,
resources and personnel to the committees;
to encourage principals to spend one day per
month visiting other schools and/or
attending conferences or seminars; to
encourage superintendents and principals to
make more opportunities available for
teachers to visit other schools; to designate
professional development day 1972 as an
opportunity for schools to organize staff
seminars.
Other recommendations were:
* That the principal should decide on
innovations which he desires within his
school and then work with the staff to
implement change; should encourage
teachers to explore new uses for present
facilities and encourage flexibility in use of
space and equipment; should initiate
constructive. planning sessions and provide
time for planning, evaluating and reporting
sessions within school time.
* Stress public relations with
parent-teacher conferences, newspaper
articles, advertisements of school open
nights and special events.
* Appoint consultants on a short term
basis from present county staff to aid
schools and teachers who wish assistance in
adopting non-graded methods to their
program.
* Designate financial and staff support to
schools which are willing to write, undertake
and open to the public, projects in
non-grading.
A survey of the elementary schools in the
county showed that many of the schools are
already using the non-grading system to a
degree, The committee listed 12 signs in the
county elementary schools showing a trend
toward non-grading procedures.
The committee also pointed out that the
non-graded approach to education
recognizes that each child is 'unique and has
his own rate and pattern of physical, mental,
social and emotional growth; that he has his
own special mode of learning with growth
continuous from infancy to maturity; that a
feeling of success and a lack of the inhibiting
fear of failure are essential for normal
growth; and finally, that children face
certain common "developmental tasks" and
should work at those tasks when they reach
the appropriate maturity levels.
"The graded structure in an elementary
school presents certain barriers to putting
such a philosphy into practice," the report
noted. "Grade lines are part of a century old
organization, whose only educational value
lies in making it easier tr administer a school
or classroom. They are recognized now as a
part of an organization inconsistent with
20th century knowledge of child growth and
development,"
"Ungrading a school or classroom is one
way to make possible the continuous
progress of children," the report added.
During a frank and open question and
answer period, board members raised some
of their concerns about the open concept
and the non-graded system.
Chairman of the Board, R. M. Elliott, said
he wonders if education wasn't "going
around in circles" with the open concept
and even the non-graded system a type of
return to the old one-room schools where
students could listen to anything that
interested them, in grades above or below
them,
Arnold Mathers claimed that in the new
system, schools were "keeping the best part
of the one-room school" - that of exposure
to various levels of learning - but with the
added advantage of a teacher having less
grades to handle at home time and more
teaching aids with which to work.
Several questions were asked concerning
what would happen to students coming out
of this system into high school, and it was
declared that the credit system to go into
effect in the county high schools this fall,
would enhance the proposed adjustments at
the elementary level.
The board learned that educators were
not neglecting the basic three R's in the new
methods.
"Basic element will be important for all
time," said Gary, Jewitt, "but we have to
keep students interested and working."
Arnold Mathers said the new teaching
methods are "more work and a far greater
challenge for the teacher".
John Henderson of McKillop wondered
why there were so many different methods
employed to teach reading.
"There's no one right way," said Mathers.
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