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Stainless steel drums of heavy water crowd nuclear generating plant storeroom, the vital ingredient, in making electrical power. Shortages and high pr(...)
Stainless steel drums of heavy water crowd nuclear generating plant storeroom, the vital ingredient, in making electrical power. Shortages and high pr(...)

Stainless steel drums of heavy water crowd nuclear generating plant storeroom, the vital ingredient, in making electrical power. Shortages and high pr(...)

Date7/30/1971
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Original Toronto Star caption: Stainless steel drums of heavy water crowd nuclear generating plant storeroom, the vital ingredient, in making electrical power. Shortages and high prices have moved Atomic Energy of Canada to develop its own factories to produce it, a program that includes rebuilding massive but ineffective facility at Glace Bay, N. S.
GeographyProvince stateOntario
GeographyCountryCanada
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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
Object NumberTSPA_0002458F
Hundreds of switches, buttons and dials control nuclear generating plant for which heavy water is produced at installations such as Atomic Energy of C(...)
Hundreds of switches, buttons and dials control nuclear generating plant for which heavy water is produced at installations such as Atomic Energy of C(...)
Olsen, Bob, 1931-2022
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Bone of contention. Nuclear plants such as Ontario Hydro's generating station at Pickering, above, have been the centre of increasing acrimony for lac(...)
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Spremo, Boris
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Mothballed? The Peterson government should rethink its proposed to shut down the Darlington Nuclear Generating Station, forcing 4,000 employees out of(...)
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Dunlop, Al
6/5/1985
Weaving a network of power. Workmen appear to be weaving a network of steel reinforcing rods as Ontario Hydro expands its nuclear power-generating pla(...)
Weaving a network of power. Workmen appear to be weaving a network of steel reinforcing rods as Ontario Hydro expands its nuclear power-generating pla(...)
Mahler, John
6/30/1976
Hydro's nuclear generating plant at Pickering pours steam heat into Lake Ontario
Hydro's nuclear generating plant at Pickering pours steam heat into Lake Ontario
Loek, Dick
10/11/1973
Bill Clark works in space-age control room of world's most efficient nuclear generating station
Bill Clark works in space-age control room of world's most efficient nuclear generating station
Spremo, Boris
3/31/1977
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Powerful turbines fed by nuclear energy churn out electricity at Pickering generating station
Spremo, Boris
3/31/1977
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World's largest nuclear generating station, this Ontario Hydro facility on Lake Ontario at Pickering could be doubled in size at a cost of $1.3 billio(...)
Beaty, Keith
6/17/1974
Several men in white coats work at the base of a large piece of industrial equipment.
NRX nuclear reactor
Toronto Star (Firm)
February 1953
Moisture Separator Reheater (MSR) inside Darlington Nuclear Power Station
Moisture Separator Reheater (MSR) inside Darlington Nuclear Power Station
Mahler, John
8/29/1988
Above is the atomic generating station in Pickering
Above is the atomic generating station in Pickering
Dinsmore, Ted
3/10/1971
Schematic diagram of a heavy water-natural uranium power reactor system
Schematic diagram of a heavy water-natural uranium power reactor system
Atomic Energy of Canada Limited Chalk River
1955