Randall
Yes, it makes sense to shut the two Pickering A units, given that a safety-related issue was evidently identified. Nuclear operators do not shut down without justification, and the newspaper articles are too brief to explain the full story.
According to OPG http://www.opg.com/news/releases/NewsJul06_07.pdf "While the Pickering A Units had been operating well, OPG's decision-making adheres to a strict safety culture which dictated the Units remain off-line while modifications to this backup system are completed. The modifications are expected to be completed throughout the summer."
As an aside, I cycled on the waterfront trail around Pickering, last Saturday. A really great trail, with a lovely boardwalk and "seafront" feel, with protected marshland on the land side of the trail.
cheers
Morgan Brown
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Sent: July 6, 2007 11:46 PM
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Subject: [cdn-nucl-l] Pickering Not There
http://cp.horizon-news.com/lethherald/article_story.php?cpid=726379&ctgry=n
The story says that two units at Pickering are not running so their
backup systems can be maintained.
Does this make sense? If you operate without a backup that means that
at least you are operating. Shutting down when the backup is not there
makes the backup a liability, not a reliability guarantee. If the story
is right, then the approach being followed at Pickering does not seem
very practical to me. What is even worse, this approach is being used
on two reactors concurrently. If they were both running without a
backup and one failed at least we would have one still running. As it
is we have none.
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