回复: 这里会不会有环境污染?
加拿大核工业主要在东部地区,中部地区是原料产区,西部地区没有核工业。
自从日本核电站事故后,魁省经过不断努力,宣布永远性的关闭三河核电站,从此不在使用核电技术。
现在几乎所有核工业集中在安省:
Bruce Nuclear Generating Stations A and B
Opened in 1977 and located in Kincardine, Ont., about 150 kilometres northwest of London, the Bruce plant contains two generating stations, which each hold four reactors. Six of the units are currently operational, and produce over 4,700 megawatts (MW) of power
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Pickering stations A and B
This facility, which is about 30 kilometres east of Toronto, was built in 1971. Equipped with six working reactors, Pickering is one of the largest nuclear facilities in the world, and generates about 3,100 MW.
Darlington
Located in Bowmanville, Ont., about 70 kilometres east of Toronto, this four-unit station produces 3,512 MW — about 20 percent of Ontario’s needs. Plans are in the works to add up to four new reactors to the site, which, once built, will give Darlington a total generating capacity of 4,800 MW.
Gentilly-2(日本地震后宣布逐步永久性关闭,最近又宣布加快关闭速度)
This facility near Bécancour, Que., was built in stages between 1966 and 1983 and originally featured two plants. Gentilly-1 is now closed and in the decommissioning process, while Gentilly-2 remains in operation and outputs about 675 MW. The site also contains a 381-MW gas turbine generation plant.
Point Lepreau
Built between 1975 and 1982 on the north shore of the Bay of Fundy, this station has a capacity of 635 MW.
Nuclear reactors are primarily used for power generation, but they are also employed for uranium processing, research and processing for industrial and medical purposes. They can be found in the following Canadian locales:
Uranium processing and fuel fabrication facilities
- Blind River uranium refining facility (Blind River, Ont.)
- Port Hope uranium conversion facility (Port Hope, Ont.)
- Port Hope nuclear fuel facility
- Toronto nuclear fuel fabrication facility
- Peterborough nuclear fuel facility
Nuclear research and isotope production
- McMaster University (Hamilton, Ont.)
- École Polytechnique (Montreal)
- Saskatchewan Research Council (Saskatoon)
- University of Alberta (Edmonton)
- Royal Military College of Canada (Kingston, Ont.)
- Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. in Chalk River, Ont. (four reactors, two of which are in extended shutdown state)
(Note: Dalhousie University's Life Sciences Centre in Halifax used a Slowpoke-2 reactor for research until 2008, and it was successfully decomissioned in 2011.)