{"id":8290,"date":"2011-03-16T07:32:58","date_gmt":"2011-03-16T11:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=8290"},"modified":"2020-07-13T11:04:51","modified_gmt":"2020-07-13T15:04:51","slug":"ontarios-nuclear-power-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/03\/16\/ontarios-nuclear-power-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"Ontario&#8217;s nuclear power industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I live near two nuclear power plants, and have done for more than a decade, but even with those two hints, I didn&#8217;t realize that Ontario gets <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cna.ca\/english\/news_events\/statement_cna.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">55% of its electricity<\/a> from nuclear sources. For some reason, I thought we were somewhere in the 20-25% range &mdash; higher than the Canadian average of 15%, but not over half.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian Nuclear Association has posted a statement on their website (including the above nugget of information):<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cOur thoughts are with the people of Japan and their relatives in Canada during this terrible time, as well as with the workers at the Fukushima station for their tireless efforts to protect the people offsite.<\/p>\n<p>Over the coming days and weeks you can expect to hear many varying opinions on the events in Japan and even on Canadian nuclear facilities. Some will be based on fact and will contribute to a worthwhile discussion. Unfortunately, some of what you will hear may not be based on fact.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s important to remember the Fukushima plant was damaged, not as a result of any flaw in the reactor design, but from the largest ever earthquake in Japan\u2019s history followed by a devastating tsunami. The nuclear industry &mdash; in Canada and around the world &mdash; has a history of working closely together to share technical expertise. We also have a history of examining operations and activities to ensure continuous improvements.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I live near two nuclear power plants, and have done for more than a decade, but even with those two hints, I didn&#8217;t realize that Ontario gets 55% of its electricity from nuclear sources. For some reason, I thought we were somewhere in the 20-25% range &mdash; higher than the Canadian average of 15%, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,24,15],"tags":[497,1386,87],"class_list":["post-8290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-japan","category-technology","tag-electricity","tag-nuclearpower","tag-ontario"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-29I","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8290"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58771,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8290\/revisions\/58771"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}