Should we build a bunch of nuclear reactors in Northern MB?

Many areas in Northern MB are completely safe from any natural disaster. Save massive global ones ( like an ice age or sea levels rising by a few hundred feet.

No worries even about tornadoes in areas.
No earthquakes on the shield.
no flooding even.
secure from terrorist attacks that dont involve flight because of remoteness
little evacuation necessary in case of catastrophic accident
ready storage ability of waster material in local decommissioned mines


If we built like 20 of them, it would allow employment for every single person in Northern MB. (never mind the years to build, afterwards we are talking about 500 people per reactor.)


. we would not even need to do this ourselves. just create the necessary environment so that some other province or state understood the logic of building in a secure place like our province. They can just pay a substantial fee for using the land

I'm pretty sure under the current guberment anything that remotely makes sense will not happen. Maybe under hughie should he win the election.

What aboot Piniwa? They already have a nuke license, and the mayor and a few others want a power producing reactor instead of a research reactor...

Or, better yet, since AECL cannot build the medical isotope reactor as originally intended, why not build it @ Piniwa?

that can be number 1

Why build nuclear when we have hydro power available?

because you need a decent sized river to build a hydro dam and not everyone lives near decent sized rivers.

Deank wrote:because you need a decent sized river to build a hydro dam and not everyone lives near decent sized rivers.

And those that do are annoyed about flooding of their traditional lands....

Earthquakes can and have happened in Manitoba, albeit on a very small scale. Tornadoes do happen all across Manitoba, however the north is so sparsely populated that most of the northern ones aren't detected.

I would say the biggest costly disaster to any kind of northern development would be the natives asking for a piece of the pie for any kind of development.

it dont take people to report them anymore and because of the climate the most the tornadoes get is F1

they get highly skilled highly paid jobs. nothing else.

(this is not directed at you)
sick of all this pandering bullshit... its our traditional land..so? its not your reserve land you get no say.

want jobs? no? k.. welfare is cut off too then

FlyingRat wrote:

Deank wrote:because you need a decent sized river to build a hydro dam and not everyone lives near decent sized rivers.

And those that do are annoyed about flooding of their traditional lands....

Not only that, but a nuke-plant requires vast quantities of fresh, cold water....anyone know where we could find some?

Not only that, but building reactors in the north, none of our drinking water would be contaminated should one of these plants "accidentally-on-purpose" release radiation/pollution it would be carried out into Hudson Bay, which is already somewhat polluted anyway....

At a minimum, one or more power generating plants would diversify our energy sources and provide yet more electricity we could sell off...

Worthy of investigating IMO. I just don't think we'd want anyone from Manitoba Hydro involved! lol

having MB hydro involved is fine.. having political appointees at the head of hydro or politicians ordering hydro what to do is not

The medical isotope situation was a typical "good government" situation!
Apparently "we", Canada lost over $500 million dollars and no one knew anything!
That is the reason Harper cancelled the manufacturing ! We lost a ton of money and couldn't get out of the agreement at the time!
We had an over-the-hill nuclear facility committed to making isotopes for a price that was under our cost!
The only thing needed in northern Manitoba are the aboriginals!
That has worked out pretty darn good for them, hasn't it?