This should not go unnoticed by the environmentalists!
The risk of a nuclear disaster is absolutely present and the consecuenses would be far more severe then if something should go wrong at a drill site! Would be like a small fart on a farmers field in comparison!
http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20110316-712217.html
DOW JONES NEWSWIRES
Ontario Power Generation Inc. (OPG.YY) said its nuclear power station in Pickering, Ont. unintentionally released water into the environment on Tuesday due to the failure of a pump seal.
In a statement posted on its website, the big electric utility, which is owned by the province of Ontario, said the release was a "low level regulatory event" and not a threat to public health. The release had only a "negligible effect" on the environment and involved about 73,000 liters of filtered water.
That water contained trace amounts of tritium, a radioactive isotope of hydrogen, but was well below regulatory limits, it said. The Pickering plant is on the north shore of Lake Ontario, just east of Toronto.
The utility's announcement comes as the nuclear crisis in Japan deepens in the wake of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in that country, which severely damaged the Fukushima nuclear plant. Governments around the world have taken a second look at nuclear-energy saftey, and even small regulatory events are likely to raise scrutiny.
-By Carolyn King, Dow Jones Newswires; 416-306-2100; carolyn.m.king@dowjones.com
