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Ontario Hydro has
decided not to retube Unit
1 at the Iftuce Nuclear
Power Development,
north of Kincardine.
Last Tuesday, Hydro's
board of directors decided
not to commit to retubing He added the retubing
of Unit I and took a $250 project could be reconsid-
million write-off for 1997. ered if demand for elec-
Raccoons proliferate
Al Kupcis, Hydro pres-
ident, said in a press
release, "Hydro's surplus
generating capacity and
the higher than planned
production costs of
nuclear are contributing
factors to this decision."
in Culross township
Controlling raccoon numbers could he one way to
light rabies, according to Culross Township Council.
Bruce County Council endorsed a resolution from
Culross asking the Ministry uI Natural Resources to
look at the problem of nuisance raccoons. Culross is
increasingly concerned about a "tremendous population
explosion" of raccoons locally, and the damage the ani-
mals inflict on crops and tarn buildings.
One suggestion is to divert money now spent on
rabies control, and use it to investigate ways of control-
ling raccoon population. The resolution stopped short of
callinI_ for a bounty of the furry bandits.
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tricity increases and the
costs of retubing compare
favorably with other
options.
Hydro will continue to
rely on electricity output
from Unit 1 until it is laid
up in the year 2000.
Retubing means replac-
ing pressure tubes in
CANDU reactors which
develop metallurgical
problems as they age.
Bruce A's Unit 2 reac-
tor was shut down two
years ago, after Hydro
decided against retubing
it.
Writing off Unit I will
not affect Hydro's propos-
al to burn MOX fuel from
dismantled nuclear
weapons, Jim Burpee,
general manager at the
Bruce Nuclear Power
Development said.
He said work plans and
staffing levels for Unit I
for the next. three years
will not be affected by the
board's decision.
"We will be proceeding
with spacer location and
repositioning work on
some of the fuel channels
next year," Burpee said.
He added that without
this work, the unit would
have been laid up in 1997.
Improving nuclear per-
formance continues to be
Hydro's priority and the
decision not to commit to
retubing at this time is not
unexpected, given Hydro's
recent performance prob-
lems with nuclear, Burpee
said.
Ron Dugas, Power
Workers Union
spokesman, said Hydro's
move is good news.
"There will he no
impact on .staff at the site
up to the year 2000. Then
management will have to
make a decision (about
retubing). Hydro will be
in a better position to put
together a business case
justifying the retube
because it has already
written off the cost of Unit
11
These LCPS students were part of the
Christmas Around The World concert last
week. Performing North American Cities are,
from the left, back row: Vanessa O'Neil, Colton
Durie, Megan Taylor, Mitch Martyn, Scott Van
Heesch, Andrew Bolt. Front: Alex Main, Melissa
Atkinson, Derek Linde, Jillian Adamson,
Brittany McGlynn, Elizabeth Lynn Sommers and
Spenser Wright. (Livingston photo)
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