 Tories bypass nuclear safety watchdog with bill Following eleventh-hour talks with the Liberals, the federal government introduced emergency legislation Tuesday evening that will compel Ontario's Chalk River nuclear reactor to restart immediately.Commentsview comments in forum Page 1 2 You need to be a member of CKA and be logged into the site, to comment on news. |
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so if they don't do something supply will run low and cause medical delays .
I'm left wondering one thing though. Why were the repairs taking so long? I heard the reactor was first meant to be reopened on December 2nd.
Daghlian, Slotin, Wood River, Windscale, Three-Mile Island.
Nuclear power simply demands the utmost respect and care. Otherwise, you're tickling a sleeping dragon's tail.
Would the same Liberal senators who initially refused to restart this reactor out of purely political spite, also refuse the medical diagnosis and treatment of those patients?
Do please rally behind this and try to smear the CPC on this one because it's a lost cause.
It was the Libs who let this reactor get to such a state without finding a replacement supply.
It's now the Libs who are hindering the plan to get that supply back up and running.
... and now it's Harper who is cutting through the BS politics to get the medical community and the patients the supplies they need.
Wouldn't you take steps to protect and sustain 2/3'rds of the worlds medical isotopes?
Would the same Liberal senators who initially refused to restart this reactor out of purely political spite, also refuse the medical diagnosis and treatment of those patients?
Do please rally behind this and try to smear the CPC on this one because it's a lost cause.
It was the Libs who let this reactor get to such a state without finding a replacement supply.
It's now the Libs who are hindering the plan to get that supply back up and running.
... and now it's Harper who is cutting through the BS politics to get the medical community and the patients the supplies they need.
Undoubtedly the reactor should be restarted with all appropriate promptness, but circumventing oversight just seems reckless to me.
I think it's likely that the reactor will restart safely, and Harper will shrewdly take all the credit, but if there's an accident, even a non-fatal one, even one that releases nothing to the environment, the reactor will probably have to shut down completely. Now you've got NO production rather than just delayed production, and you're in a worse place than before.
Nuclear safetly is no light matter and emotion is the last thing the issue needs.
It should read not Tories. This is and eleventh (or more to the point after midnight) bill worked on by all Parties in both Upper and Lower Chambers.
Wouldn't you take steps to protect and sustain 2/3'rds of the worlds medical isotopes?
Would the same Liberal senators who initially refused to restart this reactor out of purely political spite, also refuse the medical diagnosis and treatment of those patients?
Do please rally behind this and try to smear the CPC on this one because it's a lost cause.
It was the Libs who let this reactor get to such a state without finding a replacement supply.
It's now the Libs who are hindering the plan to get that supply back up and running.
... and now it's Harper who is cutting through the BS politics to get the medical community and the patients the supplies they need.
Wouldn't you take steps to protect and sustain 2/3'rds of the worlds medical isotopes?
Would the same Liberal senators who initially refused to restart this reactor out of purely political spite, also refuse the medical diagnosis and treatment of those patients?
Do please rally behind this and try to smear the CPC on this one because it's a lost cause.
It was the Libs who let this reactor get to such a state without finding a replacement supply.
It's now the Libs who are hindering the plan to get that supply back up and running.
... and now it's Harper who is cutting through the BS politics to get the medical community and the patients the supplies they need.
Undoubtedly the reactor should be restarted with all appropriate promptness, but circumventing oversight just seems reckless to me.
I think it's likely that the reactor will restart safely, and Harper will shrewdly take all the credit, but if there's an accident, even a non-fatal one, even one that releases nothing to the environment, the reactor will probably have to shut down completely. Now you've got NO production rather than just delayed production, and you're in a worse place than before.
Nuclear safetly is no light matter and emotion is the last thing the issue needs.
You dodge my questions:
If it's so valuable, who let it get this bad without securing an alternative?
This is the same political-windsock thinking that the Libs are infamous for. "People are scared of nuclear reactors so we'll be popular if we shut it down. So what if it affects sick people, we can always fly south for our cancer treatment. "
This should never have been alowed to hapen in the first place!
You dodge my questions:
If it's so valuable, who let it get this bad without securing an alternative?
This is the same political-windsock thinking that the Libs are infamous for. "People are scared of nuclear reactors so we'll be popular if we shut it down. So what if it affects sick people, we can always fly south for our cancer treatment. "
This should never have been alowed to hapen in the first place!
Then why wasn't this made a priority when the Tories took power almost two years ago? Why did it come to this rushed, quick-fix workaround?
How long will it take until you conservatives realize that the Liberals aren't in power anymore, and it's guys's job to get stuff done? You can't blame the Liberals forever, though no doubt you'll try.
Being hasty with decisions regarding nuclear energy and reactions is just dangerous. There is a long list of incidents, even in the west, where people thought they were being safe, thought that all the right controls were in place but accidents still happened.
Daghlian, Slotin, Wood River, Windscale, Three-Mile Island.
Nuclear power simply demands the utmost respect and care. Otherwise, you're tickling a sleeping dragon's tail.
well agree nuclear power needs to be taken seriously and we have to be careful with it but this case is different in that the isotopes being produced here are in short supply and without them medical tests could not take place .
if we didn't do there tests wouldn't we be risking people health ? considerable more than the minor risk of reopening this reactor ( sure problem is minor and can be fixed , or they wouldn't of considered reopening reactor)