Nuclear plant of Darlington
The nuclear plant of Darlington is a Canadian Nuclear plant located on the northern coast of the Lake Ontario, with Clarington in the Ontario, to 60 km in the east of Toronto.
Description
The power station was built by stage between 1981 and 1993 by Ontario Hydro Corporation . It has 4 nuclear reactors CANDU and thus has a total power of 3524 MW when all the units are under operation.- DARLINGTON
- DARLINGTON 1
- DARLINGTON 2
- DARLINGTON 3
- DARLINGTON 4
Cost of construction
For the local population, the power station of Darlington is associated with an enormous budgetary going beyond during the building site of the construction of the first section. The initial costs were estimated at 2.5 billion dollars Canadian, while the final cost reached 14.4 billion dollars Canadian.
Analyzes risks
According to the Sierra Club of Canada, an organization ecologist of Ontario, if a Nuclear accident occurred with the power station of Darlington, the citizens of Montreal and Syracuse, in the State of New York, would be more exposed than those of Toronto. Indeed, the dominant winds of west push the atmospheric pollution of the area of Toronto towards Quebec and the north of the United States.
External bonds
- Site of Ontario Power Generation
- Seen of Darlington on Google Maps
See too
See also: List of the nuclear reactors
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