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Kids rented the movie "Walle" last night and it was pretty good.
Best part was in the "Bonus" section where they had "Burne" a repair robot. It was so true to life and funny as well.
Had to identify with the poor smuck. I can't count the number of times I've almost had the same things happen in the nuclear plant.
 
I agree, we watched it a couple weeks back. I can relate entirely to it. I laughed mor eat that than anything else. Love when you cant understand the "robot" cuss words, but know exactly what he said.
 
I have no Idea from the names where they are. I assume they are in North America. Piqua, Ohio about 30 mile from where I live had one of the first necular plants in the US as I was growing up but it has long since been gone.
 
Pickering Ontario. And between Kincardine and Port Elgin Ontario. Candu units that refuel while online at 100% power.
 
I didn't know Canada used nuclear. I thought you guys in the other America had a huge surplus of hydro.
 
Hey B&D, who is better to work for, OPG or Bruce Power. Bruce is attempting to get the OK to build 2 Units here at Nanticoke. We've optioned our Jarvis farm to TCI for windmills. Helped build Nanticoke GS in the 60's and 70's. Heard they're gonna mothball units 1-4 and run with 5-8 till the end. Unit 2 has been on line since '72.
 
Double?
Single reactor and turbine per unit. Reactor is at full power and pressure. Clamp the fueling machines on each end what ever fuel channel the "tall foreheads" say needs fuel. Push a couple of bundles in and a couple of used bundles out. Put the shield plugs and closure plugs in each end. Then off to another fuel channel.
They glow a bright blue/purple for a few days. Even 30ft down in the fuel bay they make the warmed water visibly rise due to convection currents from heat.
 
Brice power is trying to build a new nuclear power plant out here in Northern Alberta, around Grimshaw. Don't think it ever will be, to much politics and tree huggers. Good idea , hope it goes through.
 
Nuclear steam would go a long way to assist oil sands extraction. Gas and byproducts currently used for process heat could be replaced with nuclear steam.
It doesn't take very long to design and build. The delays are due to lawyers milking the system tying up the process with endless studies at thousands of dollars per hour.
 
I was down at Nanticoke a few weeks ago for an interview. The community has some "niby's" but most people welcome the city wage jobs in the country.
There is "talk" of closing the coal thermal plants but.........Unless there is something online to replace the power. The voters who want to get rid of coal. Are going to be more concerned about freezing in the dark.
Most of the existing nuclear fleet has to be retubed over the next 20 years. Coal is going to around to replace that power when the nuc's are down.
They burn that Powder River Basin coal at Nanticoke. It's soft oily spooky stuff that starts smoldering on it's own if left in a heap. Burns clean however in the furnaces with very little sulphur content.
My division is being split early next year. The choice is to stay with OPG with a different base rate "joe job". Or take the leap of faith into the paper front company that Bruce Power is with no assets. And is just leasing the eight Bruce site OPG owned nuclear units.
There will be more pay and more interesting work. Maybe even a chance to get back into a similar onsite volunteer fire dept like Pickering?
 
Quebec your neighbor is an entirely separate Country within the country of Canada. They play by a different rule book than the rest of the nation.
They pulled a dirty deal on NewFoundLand with the Church Hill Falls Power development in Labrador.
The power lines had to be built across Quebec from Labrador into the Ontario, Quebec and New York markets.
Quebec had NFL's Churchill project over a barrel by blocking the powerline build after the station was almost completed. Unless Quebec could purchase all the power for less than 2 cents per Kw hr. Then sells the power for 6 to 25 cents per KW hr.
NFL's Churchill Falls project turned into a cash cow for Quebec and barely breaks even for NFL.
Joey Smallsmallwood who signed the deal for NFL was either a dope or was paid off under the table.
Quebec does have one nuclear complex with two units. Genetily 1 and 2. 1 was a boiling water unit that never worked. 2 is down or going down for a calandria re-tube.
 
Lima and Toledo, Ohio refineries they are talking about redoing to refine the oil sands crude.
 
Got pictures here of my father and I standing in front of the first few wheelbarrows of coal being unloaded from the first coal shipment to Nanticoke. My late wife was raised in the little village of Nanticoke. Got to ride to the top of the stacks when they were being built (650').
 
Here in the USA, the voters who oppose coal seem mostly to be living off govt checks and don't have a clue how things actually work - windmills are free and will supply all the power they ever need, at no cost.....

It's sad.

--->Paul
 
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