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cident rate is comparable tb
that of many industrial ac-
tivities. However, the nuclear
accident. rate is . con-
siderably better. This should
not be surprising because the
nuclear. industry operates -
under. much more stringent
r agent
design codes and licensing
practices than any other
industry. This ends upcosting
you, the Customer, , money;
nevertheless these aro the
codes that are adhered to: F
(2) A second thing the
critics would t to
• d like . p believe is
that managing radioactive
wastes is a particularly
hazardous :problem.
Technical]. it is probably one.
Y. P by n
of the easier problems we"will•
have to deal :with,• We will'
simply bury the wastes in a
geologic.,structure that .has
remained Undisturbed• • for
several • hundred million
years. Canada has thousands
of •square miles •of such
geologic structures and we
will have to use perhaps one
square ,mile to store the
wastes we produce in the next
100 years.
I said that this is an easy
technical problem; however,
it is a very difficult public
relations problem, 'The dif-
ficulty is that the public.has-
been led to believe that
radioactive Materials are
- some new and horrible,
poison, far worse than
anythi _ ..
could not build a-homernade
bomb: If you need any more
convincing than that;, I can
tell • you that . plutonium
almost certainly will not be
shipped in its pure form.
When spent fuel is removed
froma reactor, it consists of a
'mixture of unburned
uranium, fission products and
plutonium • •(the last
amounting to about ,2 per•
cent),:' ,Let's assume the
plutonium.'is to be. extracted
•':,for recyclingirk reactor fuel
• What likely :"will heppen is
• that' the spent fuel will be
shipied'to a chernical.plant,
where the plutonium will be
separated•• out and Iran-
sf°erred to a next -doer fuel
fabrication plant, to be mixed
- with uranium or thorium to
make•fresh fuel. '
At , the very least, any
would-be terrorist would have
:to hijack about a tonne .of
`. radioactive fuel, then
Separate the plutonium in a
chemical 'separation plant,
before he eveno got •'his star-
ting material. And then, as I
said before, he would have to
more knowledge than I have
to make his bomb. I suggest
to :you thatthere are a lot of
easier ways to create terror,
as we unfortunately, too 'often
see. -
(4) • A. fourth thing the
critics would have you
believe is that you are in real
danger from gaseo
al .a r+- e ie s. i._��
seen before. In actual fact the
earth's crust already con-
tains, and -has- contained ever
since' civilization began, : far
more radioactive-- . rnater-ial
than we . will ever produce
from nuclear power stations.:
Nature protects: us from this
hazard by locking. =up this
material ' in the . rocks and
soils of the earth's crust. ..
The is exactly what we
propose to do with the
radioactive • wastes from
..nuclear power stations, Since
I am making a coni•pa'rison
between coal and nuclear, I
should- also talk about the
• .:wastes . from• .• coal-fired
-
stations:'They.' are certainly
not , as hazardous as
'•radibactive wastes but there
are 'a slot more of them.
Ontario Hydro's Lambton
station, . which . is. a .2000 -
megawatt coal-fired . station;
produces- one truckload 'of fly
ash from its -' stack,
precipitators every. ten
minutes. At Lambton_ this
waste is trucked from the site
and when. was. there a few.
years ago it was being used'to
fill a:swamp in the immediate
;vicinity. .
I suppose when they start to.
: recover SO2 from the 'stack
gas this will•"be• converted to.
;elemental sulphur andwill
remain as a sulphur pile as it'
now does in our natural gas
operations. I'm not trying to.,
imply that these wastes are a
problem. They simply have to
be handled just •as nuclear
power stations have 'wastes'
that have to be handled.
-(3) A third thingthecritics.
would like you, to believe is
that any high school student
could'hijaCk a.feW kilograms
of plutonium and make it into
•
an.. atom bomb in his garage.
This is ridiculous. '. Perhaps
the best way I could refute
this idea is to\tell you that I
have been in. the nuclear
business for 28 years; for at
least ten of those years. I
worked directly with
plutonium; I probably know
Os . much about plutonium as
anyone in Canada and I have
access to most of the world's'
• literature on nuclear
technology. I ca_n
unequivocally tell you. that I
live anywhere near a nuclear
power station) In fact the
' gaseous effluents from—the
Pickering station' have been•
--suc'h'-tlizt"a'nfian sitting on the
fence at the. - edge of the
property 24 horirs:a day for a
whole ' year would receive
about as much exposure in
addition . to ,• natural
background as a man taking.
one return trip in . a jet; air-
• craft -from Toronto to Van
couver. This is about five.
millirem per year and since
natural background in North
America varies from about
100 to•200 millirem. per year
-depending_ onwhere you -live
_I don't think we should get too
worried about it: - •
Going back to our com-
parison of nuclear and coal-
fired stations, I thinkit's fair
to say that we can minimize,
the hazards from the gaseous
effluents "`from nuclear
stations far 'easier than We
can those from • coal-fired
stations and I 'thirikwe un-
derstand the hazards better.
Again I want to emphasize
that I am not implying that
the hazards from the coal
fired 'stations ',are unac-
ceptable; I am simply stating
that those from the nuclear
station 'are less. _
The last part of m
Many statement -was that in many
areas of the country nuclear
energy will be cheaper- than
coal. Let are quote•you some
actual cost figures published
by Ontario . Hydro in April
1975 comparing the cost of
electricity from their
nuclear -fueled Pickering
Station and 'their, . coal-fired
Lambton station. • . .
a. .
'Local committee pledge o: keepin •in'terw alive
es
11-
BYDAVESYKES , of the top junior coachos, in forget' about the boy a • nd
Canadian boys have always
• grown up with the game of
hockey. It's our national sport
and CanaAdians have revered'
*-therriselvds
ashe master
of
t ..
the game.. '
Few boys • are 'left un-
• '•touohed'by "it and proud.
fathers.who•have visions of a
pi. ofessio al . career
sometimes 'coerce • children
into it under the guise that it
is never toe .early. From an
early age it is played ih the
arenas, the streets, at school
and .even. those who are not
inclined to play'or coach get
caugbt up. in ' the aura of
Stanley 'Cup playoffs.
•And so the number of boys
playing and the. n tuber of '
parents`yelling at the boys
playing, grew. . The once
heralded dream of becoming
a professional hockey player
lost out to the dream of. a big
paycheque, as league ex-
pansion was eclipsed' only by
salary expansion.
But underneath the
salaries, Canadian hockey
has had to re-evaluate itself
as the Russians took suc-
cessful blows at our hockey
ur hockey?' Leagues .ex
'panded and fans stayed home.
and soon hockey fun-
damentals were replaced by
guts and sticks traded in for.
bludgeons:
Hockey has: grown • and
perhaps beyond its limits. But
the basic structural change is
needed • in the :minor. ranks.
Roger Nielson is coach of the ••
Peterborough Petes of the
Major Junior A. League who'
has questioned the talent •
produced by the minor
hockey system. . •
Nielson is heralded as one
The stations are the same
size, .2000 megawatts, they
were built at the same time,
and this calculation' was
made " assuming that they
operated at the same
capacity factor, 80• per cent.
In fact they didn't; the
Pickering station operated at
a much higher capacity
factor' simply because it was
producing electricity at a
• much 'lower. co:'t. The actual
cost of energy from Pickering
"•Was 7.03 mills per" kilowatt
hour and that from Lambton.
••
vas_.13.6 _ mills_per.:.kilowatt-
,
houri
The cost of Lambtgn, was`
going to—increase to 16.18
mills per kilowatt hour when
they had to buy new coal later
in theyear.
Now I don't want to leave
You with the impression that
-anyone is=going to -start
:building a nuclear planet today -
and' produce electricity for 7 •
milts per kilowatt hour or that
this same comparisonwill
necessarily - held' for-, plants
built in other parts of .the
country. All construction.
costs . have shot up and a .'•
significant part of Ontario's.
coal . cost is for .tran-
sportation.
Nevertheless,: the cost'.
comparison will •indicate to .
you, that you don't have to be
very far .from a coal field
before nuclear power costs
start looking •pretty
tractive. Alberta and British
Columbia will probably stick
to coal because they have lots,
of it close at hand but by the
time you get as far away from
the dual fields . as Manitoba
the pendulum has started to
swing the other way. I -am
sure that is one of the, major
r'easons why Manitoba has
'decided to take a hard look at
nuclear. ,
• Just to stimmarize, then,. I
have posed the question,
"Why Nuclear?" . I have
'answered it by'saying that the
utilities will have two choices,.
coal and nuclear, and nuclear
is cleaner, safer and,inmany •
places, 'cheaper. And I have
given you hard factual in-
formation. that supports -that..
statement.
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Canada and his hockey team starts sending
has' always been a Coni- ng him to •the
arena the boy. starts to forget
petitive one However, about hockey and sports," he
NiilIckseoey;ableelni
eves that .poor said.°Bos should not be On
hotise a: result. ofYthe,.ir owit because they ar%e.
hos. all-star anid.. notbuilt that way,'-'•
house`te ue system.
g They. ' God,erJ;eh ' 1Vl:inor•
He-said,.there was:a lack o;f Macke As
in 11 level`s of hooke ... Y sociation has ;
talent a Y asi.epd:Larry t4°help them out
in Canada and it was time we arid he consented to give as
took a look at our method .of . much time as he could. But he
developing :;players., T'he will be working in a capacity,
Canadian system of rrrinor that.nnay be- ec'uliar to the
hockey involves all-star and, minor `system., He has
houseleague teams and he established a committee
claims there 'is little : em composed of himself, Ted
phasic pn practising. At an William's arid•Gor.dWalters.
early age the'best players are
selected- for all-star teams ; . TRIO NAMED
and .over the years there are
few player changes on, ;the The three man committee
will conduct clinics ,for minor
team. 'TMs means 'that" the
novice. all-star- team even hockey players in the fall and
tually becomes the midget already held a clinic on the
and juvenile all-star. team. Last Sunday,'th'at the. ice
Nielson states that the main remained in the arena. Larry
reason •for this , is the struc- explained that•th.e purpose of
ture of the houseleagues, the clinics was to assess
Many houseleague teams every boys talent on an i
play one game per week anda
player may receive 10 to 15
minutes'of play during -Which
he may only touch the puck a k
few . times. : Houseieague evaluated and worked on.
• teams seldom, practice which.'. Players will go through
W .• ' . ercis- -
ho'useleague player may . •be taught the basic fun
touch the puck three pr four danlentals of hockey on a
times • per. week and never individual 'basis'. There wil
improve his hockey skills. } be no competition •betwee
But 'Nielson was also players hut rather a playe
critical of the structure of all- .. will perform •the drills an
star teams. and their exercises on his own . t
schedule. `" develop his own. skills.
"What about the all-stars? Through this. evaluation
Their parents . are busy. `process Larry hopes to kee
transporting them all: 'over kids interested in. hockey and
the : country to , various place • them .on the, prepe
weekend social .gatherings team .in - the •proper leagu.
including . the Dixie Paper- according td their skills. H
weight.. Party,. the Peter- said the hockey leagues ar
• borough Atom reunion and losing players in the bantam
the national drunk at Quebec: age groups ••because they hav
City."! ' not learned the furdainental
.The. roblem .certain] , isn t • - -
p y mroper'ly • and' i'n -tlie case o
'.comnid'n t� minor hockey but`a11- tars 'the 'ust ettir•_ed•o
YJ g
'Perhaps. more :pronounced. all: the regimentation' �
Boys are' not only ,playing hockey because they, hav
hockey at an earlier age but 'been an all-star 'since, the
all-star' 'hockey and en • were six years old.'
thusiastic parents who travel • "We must take the: stres
the `province •with their ' •
off the young kids and.'kee
•'youngsters in'.those "early ' -interested in: hockep
years • soon. lose that en-.•
_.. ..... . ... the .w ...., . ,_wfaert, they reach 14 and ,I5,
thusiasm as d'o the -.layers. he said. "The most i,mportan
age :i$ 16.and if -a boy is sti
involved. in sports both.he an
the community are better fo
it.'• -•
•
Larry' believes , that
dividual basis., He hoped•
establish books on ever,
player so that strengths an
weaknesses ' could .b
• r
•
QOI I ;ICH,SfGNA••T;S: AR, THURSI 'if, A . ,j f ► 76 � P'M�G> $
volvelnent in sports as im-
por•ta>rt for the. teenager and
teaches discipline. If a paront
'can -keepa boy' involved in -
some 'sport through these.
Years thee► they have done a
yeomen job. But in .order. to
•keep them praying they must
know how• to, playa. •If such. a
committee . can teach a. boy
the'fundamentals he' is likely -
t.o enjoy •the 'game' more
because he' can play better.
And certainly if a boy im-
pro'}es his skills the longer he"
will stay with the sport.
,STRESS QFF YOUNG
Both • Larry and Ted
Williams stated' that -the
stress must 'be taken away'
from the younger players and
nut nn learning to ckatP and
HPSSB -n•
ed
learning fundamentals rather,
than being an all-star,
'.'Let's take the pressure off
the kids.because now its •,all
win and no.': fun," Williams
. said: "If they would .learn
skating and other basic skill
-at . an early, age . it would
be,eorne. a more . enjoyable
game,"'
Williams- •said: the com-
mittee Will make some plans
over the,.surrimer and -draw up
a -.training schedule for the.
clinic. He hopes the Goderich
Minor Hockey Association
ca''h take the stress off the all..
Star teams and limit the
tournaments played in a
year.
' "Young Canada Hockey
Week isn't much'of a thrill for
the kids anymore because
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By:Wilrna Oke
An ;_anti-smoking
or e grades" '4,5 an.
- classes in the: sepal'ate •
n schools was endorsed by the
1 Huron -Perth County Roman
n Catholic school board at a
✓ meeting. in Dublin Monday
d night. The program was
o presented to the board by
Canadian • Cancer Society
representatives prior to the.
p regular board meeting,'which
did not get underway' until
✓ after •10. p.m.%when the
e presentation was followed by
e the :board meeting in com-
e mittee-of-the-whole.
Because of the delay, two
e principals, Larry Cook of St:
s Mary's School Goderich, arid
f' -Ennis:Murphy of St.Patric,1's
f : School, 1{inkora ,vho were
f attending the board meeting
e as observers,' and„ the press
y representative ' hail a' long
wait in a sideroom:
ro
•
School, Zurich, Our Lady- of
Mount Carmel; Precious '•
ram • .rood 'School at Exeter; • and '(continued from. page 4)
they 'Play so P army touts
naments," be said, `,When I
was • coaching there was no
real•. all-star teamand' the •
kids used'to work arta-live-to
get selected..to 'play in alae
tournament;"
The committee is: n,ox
looking to save minor hockey
and they , do not pretend to
work miracles with the minor
hockey sys:tern. They are
simply dedicated 'hockey.
enthusiastswillingto give
their time to develophockey
talent and keep youngsters
interested in the ;,game ••'
through their adolescent .
years. -
Naturally they wilYhave to
start at the bottom and work
upand the effects may not be
realized• for a few years but. • -
the interest is there. • ,
0[ApiD110Y
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•
s •- Resignations from the
.following teachers .were.
y' .accepted::Gertrude Pearson,
grades ..1-2_.at .Our.. -Lady
t Mount Carmel School, RR 3,
Il Dashwood; Mary Coeck,
d . grades •3-4 at Precious Blood
✓ School, Exeter; --Bernadette
Perron itinerant oral:F.re'nch
teache"r - of St.: Boniface
in -
LOCAL PRODUCT-
Larry Jeffrey is a .product
of the old—minor .'hockey
system in Goderich that sent
him to a professional career
in Detroit and Toronto: Larry
also clings to the philosophy
expressed by Nielson and
claims the stress on young
hockey ,players • is .ins' great
and something must be done
to alleviate it. '
•
"The fun •is leaving the
game," he said. "The parents
are having the most fun
travelling withyoung kids all
over the province butby the
time the boy gets to peewee or
bantam the interest wanes for
both the . parents and. the
players_"
'Larry . explained that the
emphasis has now shifted to
start boys playing hockey by
the time they are five t'ea'rs
old and making them all-
stars. He added that boys
playing novice and' atom all
star .travel frequently in their
league • schedule and also
participate 'in numerous
tournaments •across the
province by the time they
reach peewee age. When a
player reaches peewee age he
has experi 1. file
pressures and the fun of
'travelling and interest
naturally for both the parent
and player disappears..
"Kids are playing too early
and soon eget tired,. of the
pressure and travelling in
hockey," Larry . explained.
"When 1 was in the minor
system boys weren't playing
organized hockey .tinder
peewee and . it was a great -
thrill to play peewee hockey."
Larry firmly believes 'that •
there should be less stress on
all-star teams below the
peewee age group ,and that
the number of tournaments
those teams participate in
should be lixnited•to one.
"If the novice and atom all-
star teams only played in one
tournament theywouldlook
forward to it and work for it,"
he said. "Since they play so
many out of town games and
tournaments it becomes
much less fun to travel to a
tournament in February and.
March. They.'re tired of it hy
then." • -
But Larry also believes that
parent participation has a lot
to do with a' boy's attitude, He
added that once a. parents
interest begins, to disappear
the ' boy also becomes
disenchanted' with hockey.
"When the parents start to
•
Ci-vic
Corner
Announcements of a civic nature are printed free of
charge in this space in the hope that increased public -
awareness and participation will be the result.
Monday, April 1.9, Council, -7:30 p'm., Town Hall,
Monday, April 25, Daylight Saving Time begins, 12:01 •
Monday, April 25 to Friday, -April 30, Annual Spring
Pickup, routes same as garage pickup.
m .o , ea ort
Aileen Craig, 40 percent part production.
tithe 'principal's• relief at St. ' (2) 'Bringing.order in the'.
Joseph School, Clinton. w flow of the .productby
. A list of all accounts paid by •organizing transportation
the :board ` is to be Compiled.. and allocation of the product:
each month and -submitted for to processors.
board approval. Twoltruatees (3) Providing a degree of
a.re. to . be appointed each quality control over. the •
Month , to scrutiniz{e• the ac- prod_ uct entering -the market,
counts prior• to board. • (4) Checking .; the
meeting. This is to be on a proliferation of vertically
trial basis commencing May :,integrated.productionunits.
1976,. until December 31, Major, gs i.n
1976 x •
many. marketing shortcominboard
The beard passed a by-law
authorizing the issuing of a
debenture in the principal with large corporate buyers.
amount of $213,'000 to provide . The free Market structure is •
money for -the co ;tzuctin-fro'f allowed-to-oont•int e=to<setthre
titie •gymnasium addition to St. Price"ofthepr—loc-uct-on a.day
Patrick's School, Kinkora, at today trading basis. • •
an interest rate of 8'/2 percent The teletype' system as in .. .
over 'a thirty year period the case of selling hogs, is in
re6ilting'in the total amount reality a price cutting Method • • '
payable of $475,977.50. of • selling. The corporate
Trustee Ronald Marty ''of buyers of the Product usually
' Stratford noted the; education " have too many_,;alternative
pro ra.m s onsored b the sources • of. supply, either
g P Y
Perth Milk :Board, Is taking
Within the country or through
place in 'Stratford this week. imports.. • -
He pointed out that the Perth 1Vta-rketing coiniuissions in
County board of education is order. to be, effective must be
given credit with assistance national in scope; Thep
to 'the Milk' Board, but •the Canadian: .constitution
Stratford '`Beacon Herald. requires,
:the .transfer of .
omitted the Huron -Perth marketing powers ,for
County Roman Catholic specific products from
:school board which aJss gave • Provincial to federal
financial assistance, jurisdiction before national
SeveraL�board members •Plans can be properly
reported .on' the..successful organized.
• education week programs at Marketing boards are
-'the various.. schools• which referred to as producer $.
they • attended during• .controlled,- ,but they are
Education Week. really functional in. meeting
A key to the board room' the needs 'of the corporate,'
will be issued, to any board buyer rather than the needs
member requesting one. of the primary producer.,
•
The board will protest the .
Stratford Planning Board All boards are ontrohed by
draft plan which requires.newprovincial laws, regulations
•public schools,
and.; government appointed
separate and
close together .. to share farm products marketing
playground facilities. boards to; protect the public
Stratford trustee Howard interest.
Shantz said . he felt the The'product is turned over
planning board was in -to •industry which is • not
fringing". on the ,'rights of controlled.
'sthootboarlis tosuggest such
a,prop'osal. • '
structures is Their inability to,
effectively negotiate prices •
•
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These members of the GDC'1:l rarna.•Club proudly display :
two awards won in a drama festival hi Guelphlastweekend
for -the play Midsummer Night's Dream, Rob 1111acEwan
hoick an award for his..outstanding performance and Earl
Salter holds an adjudicatdrkaward for special 6101 atidcs
asn Phil Main, • Paul YBi'len and' Seaf MaeLaren-look tilt
Dan Donnelly, also a inetnber of the'mechanical crew was
absent. (stuff photo) • .
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