Ontario Liberals want four more years from Pickering nuclear station
Posted Jan 11, 2016 05:51:11 PM.
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Ontario’s Liberal government wants to squeeze four more years of life out of the Pickering nuclear station.
It will start a 12.8-billion-dollar refurbishment of the Darlington power station this fall.
Nuclear reactors at both stations owned by Ontario Power Generation were originally scheduled to be decommissioned in 2020.
But cabinet decided to keep Pickering running until 2024 while the four nuclear reactors at the Darlington station are rebuilt to extend their lives by about 30 years.
OPG says the Darlington rebuild will generate 14.9 billion dollars in economic benefits to Ontario
