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ARTIST'S CONCEPTION OF GIANT PICKERING NUCLEAR POWER PLANT NUCLEAR ELECTRIC STATION © Giant First For Pickering Township ~ A nuclear - electric stationjhardly be more pleased. This)could hold a piece in your hand|water, it isn't heavy enough;come to this area, and already that's already gaining world-|work might otherwise not have|and feel no heat, This is be-jany more. Heavy water exists|a ripple effect on housing is be- wide attention is in the early|been done for many years." cause the neutrons naturally|in otdinary water -- about one|ing felt. When the plant opens, stages of construction in Pick-| Nor will the plant be a drain|fired off are going too fast to|part in 7,000 -- but extracting|a staff of about 145 will be re- ering township, on a Lake On-|on community resources, Police|split more than a very few it is costly and complex. Its use| quired in its operation, tario site about 10 miles west of) and fire protection are provided) atoms. is feasible because it allows} Once in operation, fuel ship- here. by Hydro's own forces, and if it} Even slowed down, they can fuelling with low-cost natural ments will present neither haz- Before it's finished, the peak|is necessary to connect to exist-| split only, other uranium atoms.| uranium, abundant in Ontario. |ard nor nuisance to area peo- work force will exceed 1,200\ing township sewage services| To get the useful chain reaction) And the cost of heavy water|ple: The- 232-ton initial fuelling men -- and might go as high as| and water mains, this will also| going, two things are needed: |is going down steadily. When| at Pickering will do the work of 1,400. be at Hydro's expense, Cooling| There has to be enough uranium! the Nuclear Power Demonstra-| about 4,900,000 tons of coal, or Ontario Hydro's Pickering nu-| water, used to condense steam,|in one place to keep up the tion plant (NPD) opened in 1962,) enough to fill nearly 70,000 rail- clear power station has been/ will come from the lake through|chain reaction if you get one heavy water cost $28 a pound;|way cars. Since it is natural hailed by Reeve Cliff Laycox as| facilities built and maintained|started, and something must today it's valued at about $20.50/ uranium, the 33-pound fuel bun- the greatest of all milestones in| by Hydro. | slow down the free neutrons. (and will go lower. Slight drops) dies could cause injury only by the township's 153-year history.) Cooling water in great quan-/ The reactor is a metal tank|in cost-per-pound mean a lot;| falling on somebody's toes -- an The 1,080,000 kilowatt station,|tities will be needed, since the| pierced by many rows of tubes! Pickering station will need more|accident that hasn't occurred formally launched two weeks/nuclear-electric station is basic-|into which natural uranium fuel/than 1,750,000 pounds for its|yet in the operation of NPD or ago today, is' scheduled for ini-|ally a-steam plant. In coal-fired|is placed. Then heavy water is|twin reactors. |the preparations for Douglas tial service in 1970. The capacity | thermal stations, coal is burned| added, providing extra particles| Pickering nuclear power sta-| Point. Indeed, the first injury of the $266 million installation|to create steam which turns the|for the free neutrons to collide) tion, largest now planned, exist-)at NPD was the sort that could will equal the needs of about/turbines that drive electric gen-| with, thus slowing them like pil-| ing or under construction In the|/happen in a grocery store: a 700,000 homes. erators, liard balls in collision. Since it) Western Hemisphere, is the cul-| man lifted a bale of burlap bags Even now, before the first HEAT moderates the speed of the neu-| mination of two. decades of re-| with his back instead of his legs, structural pile has been ham-|" 7, nuclear plant, the reactor| tom': heavy water used this! search and development in Can-| and wrenched his back. mered into place, the plant has provides the «noc heat of| 87 is called the moderator. | ada, The safety of these plants, for pth 9 fh having & strikinB fission to heat heavy water. Be-|10 PER CENT HEAVIER | ALL-CANADIAN |workers inside and public out pe P- cause it's under pressure, the) Heavy water, like ordinary) With the forthcoming produc-| side alike, has been well-demon- CHANGING LEVEL |heavy water doesn't boil. It|water, is a combination of hy-|tion of heavy water in Nova/strated. It's probably the only They are changing the Jevel/gives up its heat to ordinary|drogen and oxygen; it looks,|Scotia and in Western Canada, major industry in which safety of the ground, and the very| water which is turned to steam.|feels and tastes the same, but|the Canadian - designed system| considerations are as old as the shape of the shoreline. Big| From there on, the plant works} is about 10 per cent heavier.|using native natural uranium| industry itself. earth + moving machines have| like a coal-fired generating sta-|'The difference is that a heavy| will truly be all-Canadian. And no form of air and water brought land level down 12 feet| tion. |hydrogen atom has two par-| NPD is the prototype, 20,000-|pollution is as exhaustively in some places, 26 feet in others;| Fission is a fancy word for|ticles in the nucleus instead of|kilowatt station on the Ottawa| measured and strictly controlled along a 1,400-fopt strip, the|atom-splitting. In nuclear reac-|the one in ordinary hydrogen.. | River that proved the feasibility) &8 radioactive contaminants. shoreline will 'move' 400 feet|tors, countless billions of atoms| Ordinary water would soak up|of the Canadian system. Open- For example, any water dis- out into the lake, The rectangle| are split by neutrons in a con-|500 times as many neutrons asjed in 1962, it is jointly owned charged must have a radiation of water has been drained and trolled chain reaction. A neutron| heavy water, taking them in in-/by Atomic Energy of Canada level below the ultra-safe low filling is in progress behind a is one of two kinds of particles| stead of making them bounce/Ltd., and Ontario Hydro and is| maximum deemed safe for rock-filled dike. that make up the nucleus (core)| off. That's why heavy water is! operated by Hydro. drinking water, To haul steel piles and rock of an atom. With each fission,| also used as the coolant -- the} Next year, Douglas Point Nu-} For more than a year now, for shoreline protection to the|two or three more neutrons are| substance that carries the heat/clear Power Station on Lake provincia and federal health au- site, about 11,700 feet of town-|fired out to split other atoms; |ott the uranium fuel to heat ex-| Huron goes into service at 200,-|thorities ,have checked Lake ship roads have been improved|and with each fission, some|changers where it turns or-|000 kilowats. This $81.5 million Huron water near Douglas by the Township at Hydro ex-| heat is produced. dinary water into steam. It does! plant is being built by AECL in|Point, gathering data to com- ns A chain has to start some-|this in a closed circuit, never! co-operation with Hydro and will|pare with samples taken after "The program will give us where -- what starts this one?| touching ordinary water. be staffed by Hydro. |the plant starts operation. Simi- first - class roads around our|Fission is always going on in| One reason for this strict] Some of the senior people in-|lar tests at NPD showed no rime industrial area," Reeve|natural uranium, but at a wate|segregation is that if heavylvolved in the design and con-| measurable increase over the yeox has said, "'and we-could'so slow as. to be useless: youlwater mixes with ordinary struction of Douglas Point have! natural level found in the water : before the plant was built, AES Sh _ fety of control functions, The opening of the Picker- ing station -- similar in de- sign and principle to the Douglas Point station depict- ed on this page -- will be the greatest milestone in the township's history. ALL CONTROL PANELS in the central contro! room wired up. Control of the sta- tion {s centralized in this room which also contains a digital computer for a var- INSTALLATION CREW works on coolant assemblies in the reactor at the Doug- las Point Nuclear Power Nuclear been being at Douglas Point Power Station have 'delivered and are DOMED REACTOR build- ing dwarfs office and ad- ministration wing in its THE 200,000 - kilowatt power output of Douglas Point Nuclear Power Station will come from this single Station. Each of the 306 coolant assembles -- consists of a Zircaloy tube fixed: at each end into a stainless OSHAWA, ONTARIO, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1965 shadow at Douglas Point. Aerial view of Canada's first full-scale nuclear-elec- turbine generator, It's about 95 feet long and weighs 1100 tons, The Pickering station, steel end fitting, The tubes contain the uranium fuel and heavy water is pumped r the tubes from feed- Be ii son ete tric plant looks inland from Lake 'Huron. Due for service next year the station is be- the largest now planned, ex- isting or under construction in the Western Hemisphere, ing built by Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. in co-ope: tion with Ontario Hydro, is the culmination of two de- ' cades of research and de velopment in Canada, eX er pipes attached to the end fittings. Fuel is placed in the reactor by a machine ce. w& which locks on to end fit- tings and inserts fuel bun- dies, Ontario Hydro Photos 4