Canada calls in US nuclear power experts to boost performance
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Ontario Hydro's nuclear division, once regarded as a world leader in nuclear power, has had to rely on US expertise to boost the performance of its nuclear power plants. A US nuclear engineer with 30 years of experience in major US utilities, Carl Andognini, leads a team of six other nuclear engineers as he assumes the top position in the division by the end of Jan 1997. The Candu heavy-water reactors of the Canadian public utility were reaching maximum production for over 80% of the time in the 1980s. Such efficiency has steadily declined since then, with the average maximum output falling to just below 70%.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1997
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'Political Interference skewed scientific advice on fish stocks'
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Fisheries experts from Canada have blamed the Canadian government for mismanaging its Atlantic cod and Pacific salmon stocks by allowing them to dwindle. Scientists Jeffrey A. Hutchings, Carl Walters and Richard L. Haedrich say that government agencies lack effective organisational ties with scientific opinion and believe an independent body should to be set up to oversee future operations. However, government fisheries representatives say that the scientists' views are misrepresentative of the true situation.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1997
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Research chair bonanza in Canada
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The Canadian federal government plans to pay for 2,000 new university research chairs, including 1,200 within three years from the end of 1999. The aim of the project, put forward by the Canada Foundation for Innovation, chiefs of councils which give research grants, and presidents of universities, is to make Canada stand out internationally, according to the Prime Minister of Canada, Jean Chretien.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1999
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