A café owner and innkeeper who live right beside the nuclear plant in Pickering, Ont., exude calm as they recall the mistaken emergency alert that briefly panicked—and more likely confused—residents in a suburb that’s been home to an atomic power facility for nearly 50 years.
Peters slept through the alert, too, and admits a certain complacency has crept into her life in the shadow of nuclear reactors that could, in a worst-case scenario, force her to evacuate. But a conversation with Smith and Peters at the café soon drifts to a condo proposal that could bring more people, and traffic, to their picturesque nook on the shore of Lake Ontario. The plant becomes a bit of an afterthought. “Most people moved here knowing it was there,” says Smith.
Ian Fairlie, a consultant on environmental radioactivity, isn’t so sanguine. The Clean Air Alliance, an anti-nuclear non-profit that promotes other forms of green energy, asked Fairlie to predict the effects of a Fukushima-level nuclear disaster in the GTA. He painted an alarming picture: 26,000 cancer cases over several years, vast tracts of suburbia uninhabitable for a century that would leave hundreds of thousands homeless.
They didn't plan for this before building the reactor?
Based on the kind of reactors in Pickering, there is no conceivable way for a meltdown to destroy Toronto. Worse case scenario, you have to block of a few kilometer radius around the plant for 10,000 years.
Toronto would be wiped out..... and Canada would be great again.
No one believes it was a false alarm.
Not a fuck of a lot. It’s impossible for a CANDU reactor to melt down or explode in the same way as the Fukushima or Chernobyl plants did. Any emergency event will, at worst, be contained to the plant and only affect plant workers. Quit your fear-mongering over nuclear power!
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