Ontario Officials Plan 2 New Nuclear Plants: "TORONTO -- Ontario officials have announced plans to build two nuclear reactors, in what would be the first new nuclear plant construction in North America in three decades, and refurbish several old ones.
The decision made last week puts Canada at the leading edge of what the nuclear industry calls a 'renaissance' of support for nuclear power by governments caught between soaring demand for electricity and commitments to lowering the greenhouse gasses given off by coal and gas-driven power plants.


Canada has 18 operating nuclear power plants, including this one in Pickering, Ontario. Some could be updated, even as new ones are built. (By Norm Betts -- Associated Press)

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Canada's new prime minister, Stephen Harper, favors nuclear power. President Bush is pushing for the resumption of construction of nuclear power plants in the United States. The leaders of Britain, France, Australia and Finland have expressed support for building new plants.
But while China, India and other Asian countries have forged ahead with nuclear construction, projects in the West have largely stalled because of cost overruns and accidents at Three Mile Island and Chernobyl.
'We will not duck this issue,' Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty told report"