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Darlington Nuclear Generating Station

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Darlington Nuclear Generating Station is a Canadian nuclear power station located on the north shore of Lake Ontario in Clarington, Ontario. [1]

32 relations: Anti-nuclear movement, Atomic Energy of Canada Limited, Bruce Nuclear Generating Station, Canadian dollar, Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission, CANDU reactor, Capacity factor, Chernobyl disaster, Clarington, Conference Board of Canada, Cost overrun, Deep Geologic Repository, Kincardine, Ontario, Lake Ontario, Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks, Nuclear power in Canada, Nuclear power plant, Nuclear reactor, Nuclear Waste Management Organization (Canada), Ontario, Ontario Hydro, Ontario Power Generation, Orano, Pickering Nuclear Generating Station, Point Lepreau Nuclear Generating Station, Regional Municipality of Durham, Request for proposal, State-owned enterprise, Toronto Star, Westinghouse Electric Company, World Association of Nuclear Operators, World Nuclear Association.

Anti-nuclear movement

The anti-nuclear movement is a social movement that opposes various nuclear technologies.

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Atomic Energy of Canada Limited

Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL; Énergie atomique du Canada limitée (EACL)) is a Canadian federal Crown corporation and Canada's largest nuclear science and technology laboratory.

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Bruce Nuclear Generating Station

Bruce Nuclear Generating Station is a nuclear power station located on the eastern shore of Lake Huron in Ontario.

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Canadian dollar

The Canadian dollar (symbol: $; code: CAD; dollar canadien) is the currency of Canada.

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Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission

The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC; Commission canadienne de sûreté nucléaire) is the federal regulator of nuclear power and materials in Canada.

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CANDU reactor

The CANDU, for Canada Deuterium Uranium, is a Canadian pressurized heavy-water reactor design used to generate electric power.

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Capacity factor

The net capacity factor is the unitless ratio of an actual electrical energy output over a given period of time to the maximum possible electrical energy output over that period.

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Chernobyl disaster

The Chernobyl disaster, also referred to as the Chernobyl accident, was a catastrophic nuclear accident.

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Clarington

Clarington (2016 population 92,013) is a lower-tier municipality in the Regional Municipality of Durham in Ontario, Canada.

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Conference Board of Canada

The Conference Board of Canada is a Canadian not-for-profit think tank dedicated to researching and analyzing economic trends, as well as organizational performance and public policy issues.

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Cost overrun

A cost overrun, also known as a cost increase, underrated or budget overrun, involves unexpected costs incurred in excess of budgeted amounts due to an underestimation of the actual cost during budgeting.

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Deep Geologic Repository

The Deep Geological Repository Project (DGR) is a proposal by Ontario Power Generation (OPG) for the site preparation, construction, operation, decommissioning and abandonment of a deep geological radioactive waste disposal facility for low and intermediate-level radioactive waste (L&ILW).

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Kincardine, Ontario

Kincardine is a municipality located on the shores of Lake Huron in Bruce County in the province of Ontario, Canada.

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Lake Ontario

Lake Ontario is one of the five Great Lakes of North America.

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Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks

The Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks is an Ontario government ministry responsible for protecting and improving the quality of the environment in the Canadian province of Ontario, as well as coordinating Ontario's actions on climate change.

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Nuclear power in Canada

Nuclear power in Canada is provided by 19 commercial reactors with a net capacity of 13.5 Gigawatts (GWe), producing a total of 95.6 Terawatt-hours (TWh) of electricity, which accounted for 16.6% of the nation's total electric energy generation in 2015.

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Nuclear power plant

A nuclear power plant or nuclear power station is a thermal power station in which the heat source is a nuclear reactor.

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Nuclear reactor

A nuclear reactor, formerly known as an atomic pile, is a device used to initiate and control a self-sustained nuclear chain reaction.

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Nuclear Waste Management Organization (Canada)

The Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO) of Canada was established in 2002 under the Nuclear Fuel Waste Act (NFWA) to investigate approaches for managing Canada’s used nuclear fuel.

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Ontario

Ontario is one of the 13 provinces and territories of Canada and is located in east-central Canada.

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Ontario Hydro

Ontario Hydro, established in 1906 as the Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario, was a publicly owned electricity utility in the Province of Ontario.

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Ontario Power Generation

Ontario Power Generation Inc. (OPG) is a Crown corporation wholly owned by the Government of Ontario.

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Orano

Orano (previously Areva) is a French multinational group specializing in nuclear power and renewable energy headquartered in Paris La Défense.

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Pickering Nuclear Generating Station

Pickering Nuclear Generating Station is a Canadian nuclear power station located on the north shore of Lake Ontario in Pickering, Ontario.

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Point Lepreau Nuclear Generating Station

Point Lepreau Nuclear Generating Station is a nuclear power station located 2 km northeast of Point Lepreau, New Brunswick, Canada.

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Regional Municipality of Durham

The Regional Municipality of Durham, informally referred to as Durham Region, is a regional municipality located in the Golden Horseshoe of Southern Ontario, east of Toronto and the Regional Municipality of York, forming the east end of the Greater Toronto metropolitan area.

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Request for proposal

A request for proposal (RFP) is a document that solicits proposal, often made through a bidding process, by an agency or company interested in procurement of a commodity, service, or valuable asset, to potential suppliers to submit business proposals.

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State-owned enterprise

A state-owned enterprise (SOE) is a business enterprise where the state has significant control through full, majority, or significant minority ownership.

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Toronto Star

The Toronto Star is a Canadian broadsheet daily newspaper.

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Westinghouse Electric Company

Westinghouse Electric Company LLC is a US based nuclear power company formed in 1998 from the nuclear power division of the original Westinghouse Electric Corporation.

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World Association of Nuclear Operators

The World Association of Nuclear Operators (WANO) is an international group of nuclear power plant operators, dedicated to nuclear safety.

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World Nuclear Association

The World Nuclear Association (WNA) is the international organization that promotes nuclear power and supports the companies that comprise the global nuclear industry.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darlington_Nuclear_Generating_Station

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