“can just imagine the kind
of culcers the nuclear flacks ..
are getting | sin” Eastern...
Canada in the wake of the
loss-of-coolant . accident at
the . Pickering generating

_ Station..It'was one of. those |

It could a easily have turned |
into . “another Three Mile

Ea

Pou in their ‘investigation of
“incident. Sunday © af-
orca has left a family .

\

- gucceeded in stopping the
“discharge of heavy water
from a ruptured tube in the

reactor where the initial
problem developed.
=. Jt.may be two years before

the 540-megawatt reactor,
built’ in 1972 for $716

~ million, is back i in operation.

Meanwhile, it is estimated
; "that Ontario Hydro is losing
$2 million a week in terms of
electrical output that has to
“be replaced by coal-fired

. “stations.

I don’t find it particularly

“ comforting to leam that

“clumsiness” on the part of

: ica operator during a routine

test caused one accident, a
“pinpoint: leak” in a heat
exchanger led to another,
and that an alarm system
failure was to blame for a
small spill from.a break in a
fuel channel turning into a
big spill.

The chairman of Ontario
Hydro - ‘can praise his
operating -crews all he wants
for a marvellous per-
formance " that averted a
major nuclear catastrophe,
but it wasn’t you or me who
botched the job in the first
place.

The net effect was that a
cloud of water vapor spread
over the town of Pickering
and a certain - amount of
radioactive ‘tritium: was

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