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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.
Country:Canada
Province or state:Ontario
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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
Call Number / Accession 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(...)
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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(...)
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Hydro's nuclear generating plant at Pickering pours steam heat into Lake Ontario
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12/19/1980
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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(...)
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(...)
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Powerful turbines fed by nuclear energy churn out electricity at Pickering generating station
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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
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