{"id":27824,"date":"2013-11-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-14T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ashleydev.com\/2013\/11\/14\/open-house-at-ge-hitachi-toronto-plant\/"},"modified":"2020-08-27T11:41:21","modified_gmt":"2020-08-27T15:41:21","slug":"open-house-at-ge-hitachi-toronto-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cna.ca\/fr\/2013\/11\/14\/open-house-at-ge-hitachi-toronto-plant\/","title":{"rendered":"Open House at GE-Hitachi Toronto&nbsp;Plant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Malcolm Bernard<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Director of Communications<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Canadian Nuclear Association<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The regulatory hearing next month into Toronto\u2019s \u201cnuclear secret\u201d should provide an interesting contrast between scientific truth and activist myth.<\/p>\n<p>The federal nuclear regulator will <a href=\"http:\/\/nuclearsafety.gc.ca\/eng\/commission\/pdf\/CMD13-M47-NoticeCommissionMeeting-e.pdf\">hold a public meeting December 10<sup>th<\/sup><\/a> to hear about <a href=\"http:\/\/geh-canada.ca\/what-we-do\/?faq=1\">GE-Hitachi\u2019s fuel-processing plant<\/a>. The plant, located at <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.google.ca\/maps?q=1025+lansdowne+avenue+toronto&amp;hnear=1025+Lansdowne+Ave,+Toronto,+Ontario+M6H+4H2&amp;t=h&amp;z=16\">1025 Landsdowne Avenue<\/a> (near Dufferin and St. Clair), turns <a href=\"https:\/\/cna.ca\/nuclear_facts\/uranium_canada\/\">uranium oxide<\/a>, a powder, into compressed fuel pellets that power <a href=\"https:\/\/cna.ca\/nuclear_facts\/nuclear_reactors_works\/\">CANDU reactors<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>GE-Hitachi has operated the plant under a federal license for decades, but now anti-nuclear activists are pretending that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nowtoronto.com\/news\/story.cfm?content=189189\">they have discovered the plant<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/ge-uraniumsecrettoronto.blogspot.ca\/\">campaigning against its continued operation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The folks from GE-Hitachi are <a href=\"http:\/\/geh-canada.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Nov-19-Community-Open-House.pdhttp:\/\/geh-canada.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Nov-19-Community-Open-House.pdf\">holding an \u201copen house\u201d<\/a> next Tuesday, November 19. If you\u2019ve been wondering about the plant, or alarmed by the activist buzz, here\u2019s your chance to get answers directly from the people who run the place. The open house runs from 7:00 to 9:00pm at the Wallace Emerson Community Centre located at <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?q=1260+Dufferin+St,+Toronto,+Toronto+Division,+Ontario+M6H,+Canada&amp;hl=en&amp;ll=43.666925,-79.439682&amp;spn=0.007613,0.014055&amp;sll=37.0625,-95.677068&amp;sspn=66.70144,115.136719&amp;oq=1260+dufferin&amp;geocode=Fe1NmgIdvthD-w&amp;hnear=1260+Dufferin+St,+Toronto,+Toronto+Division,+Ontario+M6H,+Canada&amp;t=m&amp;z=17&amp;iwloc=A\">1260 Dufferin Street<\/a> in Toronto. \u00a0GE-Hitachi staff will be on hand to answer questions and share facts.<\/p>\n<h3>Background: GE-Hitachi\u2019s Safety Record<\/h3>\n<p>GE-Hitachi have been safely producing <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nuclear_fuel\">ceramic uranium fuel pellets<\/a> at the Lansdowne plant for close to sixty years, always adhering to health and environmental standards. Company monitoring consistently shows emissions to be well below regulatory limits \u2013 even well below \u201caction levels,\u201d which are a sort of early-warning level.<\/p>\n<h4>Soil Sample Testing<\/h4>\n<p>Independent tests conducted in June 2013 by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nuclearsafety.gc.ca\/\">Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ene.gov.on.ca\/environment\/en\/index.htm\">Ontario Ministry of the Environment<\/a> showed no reason for concern.<\/p>\n<p>As the Ontario Ministry of Environment <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ene.gov.on.ca\/environment\/en\/resources\/STDPROD_109469.html\">concluded<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>\u201cUranium concentrations in boulevard, park and municipal right-of-way soils sampled by the Ministry in the vicinity of GE-Hitachi were<\/em><i>\u00a0<\/i><i>all within the range of typical Ontario background concentrations<\/i><i>\u00a0<\/i><em>and no samples collected were elevated relative to either the Ministry\u2019s Table 1 background based soil standards or the MOE Table 3 generic based soil standards. Overall<\/em><i>\u00a0<\/i><i>there was no pattern of either increasing or decreasing soil uranium concentrations<\/i><i>\u00a0<\/i><em>with distance from GE-Hitachi. All soil uranium concentrations in this survey were relatively low and there is little evidence that uranium emissions from GE Hitachi have had a measurable impact on soil uranium concentrations in the surrounding residential neighbourhoods.\u201d<\/em><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p>The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nuclearsafety.gc.ca\/eng\/mycommunity\/facilities\/toronto\/GE-Hitachi-Toronto.cfm\">report<\/a> said:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>\u201c<\/em><i>There is no health risk to the community.<\/i><i>\u00a0<\/i><em>Results show that uranium releases from the GEH-C facility are not impacting human health or the environment\u2014<\/em><i>all results are below the accepted standards<\/i><i>\u00a0<\/i><em>and guidelines and often below the natural background levels of uranium in Ontario soils. These results are also consistent with GEH-C\u2019s annual reports and the analysis conducted by the MOE.\u201d<\/em><i><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Malcolm Bernard Director of Communications Canadian Nuclear Association The regulatory hearing next month into Toronto\u2019s \u201cnuclear secret\u201d should provide an interesting contrast between scientific truth and activist myth. The federal nuclear regulator will hold a public meeting December 10th to hear about GE-Hitachi\u2019s fuel-processing plant. 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