Gentilly Nuclear Power Station
This plant is located on the St. Lawrence River near Trois Rivières, about an hour’s drive east of Montreal. This plant is rated at 685 MW. It is the only nuclear power plant in Quebec, a province that produces most of its electricity from abundant hydro resources. [...]
Medical Isotopes Division
This facility, located in Kanata, near Ottawa, is the world’s largest manufacturer of products using radioisotopes for medical and industrial purposes.
Workers at this site are members of the Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC), Local 70367.
Darlington Nuclear Generating Station
This facility is located on Lake Ontario approximately an hour’s drive east of Toronto in Clarington.
The plant consists of four 900 megawatt CANDU reactors. When all four units are operating, the station produces almost 20 per cent of the electricity consumed by Ontario residents and industries.
To take a [...]
Pickering Nuclear Generating Station
This nuclear power plant is located a half-hour drive east of the city of Toronto in Pickering, Ontario. This site houses eight CANDU nuclear reactors. The station is divided into two power plants known as Pickering A and Pickering B, each with four reactors which are rated at 540 MW. [...]
Point Lepreau Nuclear Power Station
This nuclear power plant is located at Point Lepreau on the Bay of Fundy, a half-hour’s drive from Saint John, New Brunswick.
The plant currently consists of a single CANDU reactor, rated at 680 MW that supplies up to 30 percent of the province’s electrical power. The reactor will undergo [...]