PAGE 8, WHITBY FREE PRESS, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2,1987 Groups claim hydro reactor plan being kept secret Members of Greenpeace and Durham Nuclear Awareness claim Ontario Hydro has secret plans to add four more reactors to the Darlington generating station but that Hydro and the Liberal gover- nment are keeping the plans secret until after the Sept. 10 provincial election. With information he said he ob- tained from an "informed source," John Willis of Greenpeace said at a press conference in Bowmanville last week that the recommen- dations, within Hydro's demand/supply option study, have not been made known to avoid becoming an election issue. Hydro says all options to produce electricity will be reviewed but that the study is not yet complete. Meanwhile, Durham Nuclear Awareness says shipments of tritiated heavy water along Hwy. 401 from Pickering to Darlington have not yet begun because Hydro and Liberal leader David Peterson don't want the shipments to become an election issue. "The people of Durham Region have to make sure that it is made an issue," says Jeff Brackett of Names omitted from list All three parties are discovering names not on the enumeration list as they phone homes for support. According to NDP campaign manager Barry Salmon, for a couple of days last week, his can- vassers were discovering 300 names a day that were not on the voting list. He says this is due to people not being home during enumeration For more information contact: Communications Branch Ministry of the Attorney General 18 King Street East, 5th floor Toronto, Ontario M5C 1C5 and names enumerators missed. "Enumeration was poorly done this year," says Conservative campaign manager Judi Longfield. She says the enumerators were inexperienced people and names her party supplied of experienced enumerators were not picked. She says her canvassers are ad- ding about 10 names a day to the voting list. Oshawa, a amember of the awareness group. The group opposes the shipments for safety and environmental reasons. Members planned to hold a vigil at the entrance gate of the Pickering generating station today (Wednesday) from noon until 8 p.m. anu were tu pie t:ât,,à uIts of candidate surveys on tritium tran- sport for the five provincial ridings in Durham Region. LETTER: What protection do we really have? To the editor. It was a step in the right direction when the Durham Nuclear Emergency Task Force handed out a booklet on how to prépare for nuclear disaster to people living near the Pickering nuclear station. One day we may need all the infor- mation we can get. It may be sooner than later....let me explain. On page il of the booklet, jointly written by Ontario Hydro, Durham Region and the Office of the Solicitor General, it says: "If a major process fails durig normal operation, special safety systems provide further lines of defense. These systems, tested every day, include two methods to shut down the reactor..." The crucial word here is "include" because although the Pickering B reactors have two fast emergency shutdown systems, Ministry of the Attomey General the aging Pickering -A reactors were built before present day safety systems were required. They have • only one fast emergency shutdown system, in violation of the Atomic Energy Control Board licencing document number 13 which governs all nuclear stations newer than Pickering A. In fact if Ontario Hydro made application to build Pickering A now, with its obsolete safety systems, the AECB would be forced to reject the plan. Further, on page one of the Nuclear Emergency Task Force booklet, it says: "Every two years, before being granted a licence to continue operating the Pickering station, Ontario Hydro must apply to the Atomic Energy Control Board (AECB). Proof must be submitted that the station's in- depth safety systems are being maintained and properly operated...". No mention is made of thé AECB's option of making excep- tions to the rules whenever it suits them. What protection do we really have? . Recently the AECB relicenced two Pickering A reactors, once again overriding safety regufations by overlooking shutdown systems which fall below official standards. This is particularly alarming when you think that these two reactors just went through a $441 million rebuild and still the required safety systems were not installed. In the early 1980's the City of Toronto requested that Pickering A reactors be operated at reduced power. Just as a car is safer at lower speeds, a reduction in power at Pickering A would give operators more time to react in an emergency situation. The AECB denied the request. So it's full power at Pickering - full speed towards disaster. Jeff Brackett Durham Nuclear Awareness Reply.to letter FROM PAGE 6 refugees as pawns for their own purposes. 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