Pickering Nuclear Generating Station

• How Pickering Nuclear Generating Station became key to Ontario’s energy plan

  Pickering Nuclear Generating Station was once meant to have already closed down. Successive governments, however, have extended its life and it now faces a full rebuild.

  Politics

  Feb 14, 2024
  
• Ontario plunging into energy storage as electricity supply crunch looms

  Ontario is staring down an electricity supply crunch and amid a rush to secure more power, it is plunging into the world of energy storage.

  Canada

  Dec 26, 2022
  
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• Ontario planning to keep Pickering nuclear power station open until 2026

  Ontario's long-term energy planning had assumed Pickering would close in a phased shut-down beginning in 2024.

  Politics

  Sep 29, 2022
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• Nuclear false alarm in Pickering was due to human error, investigation finds

  A report today from the chief of Emergency Management Ontario blames communications failures, procedural gaps and a lack of training for why it took 108 minutes to give an all clear.

  Canada

  Feb 27, 2020
• Surge in iodide pill orders after false alarm at Pickering nuclear power plant

  Ontario Power Generation says there are normally between 100 and 200 orders per month.

  Health

  Jan 14, 2020
• Ontario residents demand answers from province, OPG after emergency alert sent ‘in error’

  Sylvia Jones, Ontario's solicitor general, said a "full investigation" has been launched to determine how the error happened.

  Jan 12, 2020
• Pickering Nuclear Generating Station emergency alert issued in error, investigation launched

  "The alert was issued in error to the public during a routine training exercise being conducted by the Provincial Emergency Operations Centre," Sylvia Jones, the province's solicitor general, said in a statement.

  Canada

  Jan 12, 2020