[EBT]

As someone who was involved in the construction of the original Darlington NGS It is great to see nuclear power projects being built in Ontario again albeit on a tiny scale AND 35 YEARS TOO LATE!

In the 1980's as a young man, I worked for a Swiss company (BBC, Brown, Boveri & Cie - now known as ABB) that supplied the steam turbine generators to the turbine hall/island for Darlington NGS and was involved in many aspects of the turbine generator design, erection and commissioning.

Back in the '80s double digit inflation pushed the cost of Darlington way over budget which unfortunately doomed future expansion plans and yet compared to what Ontario has paid for "green energy" Darlington is still a bargain in retrospect as are Bruce and Pickering. Ontario should never have given up on building full-scale nuclear plants. Even today these legacy nuclear plants provide Ontario with our base-load energy and CHEAPEST energy!

It was cheap hydro-electric energy that built Ontario's early economy. If we want to revive the Ontario economy, we need to start building cheap sources of energy.

 

[old boy]

As someone who was involved in the construction of the original Darlington NGS It is great to see nuclear power projects being built in Ontario again albeit on a tiny scale AND 35 YEARS TOO LATE!

In the 1980's as a young man, I worked for a Swiss company (BBC, Brown, Boveri & Cie - now known as ABB) that supplied the steam turbine generators to the turbine hall/island for Darlington NGS and was involved in many aspects of the turbine generator design, erection and commissioning.

Back in the '80s double digit inflation pushed the cost of Darlington way over budget which unfortunately doomed future expansion plans and yet compared to what Ontario has paid for "green energy" Darlington is still a bargain in retrospect as are Bruce and Pickering. Ontario should never have given up on building full-scale nuclear plants. Even today these legacy nuclear plants provide Ontario with our base-load energy and CHEAPEST energy!

It was cheap hydro-electric energy that built Ontario's early economy. If we want to revive the Ontario economy, we need to start building cheap sources of energy.

Watch for big announcements for the proposed Wesleyville NGS. I too worked at Darlington during construction including the construction of the turbine blocks , as well as at Pickering NGS and at the Bruce A refurbishment . Nuclear will play a very big part in Ontario's future energy production according to the Energy Minister, S. Lecce.