TORONTO - Ten years ago, as the province emerged, blinking, from a dark tunnel of a massive blackout that left 50 million people without power, we asked why?
And we wanted to know what we could do to avoid having it happen again.
We looked at what worked — and what didn’t.
One of the key elements to this province’s survival was the Bruce plant on Lake Huron.
It — and the Beck hydro-powered plant at Niagara Falls — were the power sources that survived the power outage and got back up and running quickly.
Bruce Power CEO Duncan Hawthorne spoke to me Tuesday, recalling the dark days of August 2003.
“One of the good features of the CANDU is that when the turbine comes off-line and you are disconnected from the rest of the world, the operators have the ability to hold the reactors at power,” he said.
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And we wanted to know what we could do to avoid having it happen again.
We looked at what worked — and what didn’t.
One of the key elements to this province’s survival was the Bruce plant on Lake Huron.
It — and the Beck hydro-powered plant at Niagara Falls — were the power sources that survived the power outage and got back up and running quickly.
Bruce Power CEO Duncan Hawthorne spoke to me Tuesday, recalling the dark days of August 2003.
“One of the good features of the CANDU is that when the turbine comes off-line and you are disconnected from the rest of the world, the operators have the ability to hold the reactors at power,” he said.
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