Saskatchewan, Ontario to roll out mini-nuclear reactors

Re:Saskatchewan, Ontario to roll out mini-nuclear reactors by bshipp on Thursday July 14, 2022 @10:02AM (#32096221)

As far as I understood it, they weren't torn down as much as the contract was cancelled and more weren't built.

I live in Windsor-Essex and still see new windmill projects going up all the time.

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Re:Saskatchewan, Ontario to roll out mini-nuclear reactors by pjc50 on Thursday July 14, 2022 @10:46AM (#32096723)

That links says that (a) they were torn down, complete or incomplete, and (b) the company was paid a (huge!) contract break fee for this, as you would expect.

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Re:Saskatchewan, Ontario to roll out mini-nuclear reactors by bshipp on Thursday July 14, 2022 @12:00PM (#32097766)

Yes, apparently they tore down 4 turbines, which is a waste of money.

But if you've ever been to Chatham-Kent you'd notice that there are places where you can do a 360 degree turn and never see fewer than 10 windmills in your field of vision. Ontario has 2,600 wind turbines.

https://www.nationalobserver.com/2020/10/23/news/wind-turbin....

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Re:Saskatchewan, Ontario to roll out mini-nuclear reactors by ncmncm on Thursday July 14, 2022 @11:18PM (#32104246)

Of course the turbines will not have been scrapped, but will be sold on. Probably the blades, too.

So, only the towers, really.

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Re:Saskatchewan, Ontario to roll out mini-nuclear reactors by ipaddr on Thursday July 14, 2022 @11:55AM (#32097694)

Huge as in the price of Twitter 44 billion or the 1 billion breakup fee?

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