Ontario Hydro, the company that owns and operates almost all of Canada’s
nuclear power stations, announced last week that it will shut down 7 of its 19
reactors within a year because they are operating at only “minimally acceptable”
safety levels. The company has been forced to act after a damning report slated
substandard management and work practices. Ontario Hydro itself had commissioned
the report. “It’s not the technology, it’s a people issue, a management
problem,” says a spokesman. Some of the reactors may never reopen.
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