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Trouble spot: Jack Muir, Pickering spokesman, points to problem area on model of reactor (above), and holds fuel bundle (right)
Trouble spot: Jack Muir, Pickering spokesman, points to problem area on model of reactor (above), and holds fuel bundle (right)

Trouble spot: Jack Muir, Pickering spokesman, points to problem area on model of reactor (above), and holds fuel bundle (right)

Date8/18/1983
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Original Toronto Star caption: Trouble spot: Jack Muir, Pickering spokesman, points to problem area on model of reactor (above), and holds fuel bundle (right).
GeographyProvince stateOntario
GeographyCountryCanada
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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
Object NumberTSPA_0002513F
Trouble spot: Jack Muir, Pickering spokesman, points to problem area on model of reactor (above), and holds fuel bundle (right)
Trouble spot: Jack Muir, Pickering spokesman, points to problem area on model of reactor (above), and holds fuel bundle (right)
8/18/1983
Scientists prepare a reactor core for nuclear fuel bundles at the Pickering power plant
Scientists prepare a reactor core for nuclear fuel bundles at the Pickering power plant
8/7/1979
Hot rods: Technicians work on the reactor tubes, which contain 6,240 bundles of uranium fuel rods
Hot rods: Technicians work on the reactor tubes, which contain 6,240 bundles of uranium fuel rods
8/29/1989
Guys are standing on machine that loads fuel bundles into the 480 tubes in reactor core
Guys are standing on machine that loads fuel bundles into the 480 tubes in reactor core
8/29/1989
Deep in the heart of one four nuclear reactors at Pickering power station, technicians prepare tubes that will contain fuel rods when the plant begins producing power within tow months
Deep in the heart of one four nuclear reactors at Pickering power station, technicians prepare tubes that will contain fuel rods when the plant begins producing power within tow months
3/10/1971
Radioactive workplace: Tradesmen looked like astronauts when they donned special suits to enter reactors where they replaced damaged fuel-carrying tubes
Radioactive workplace: Tradesmen looked like astronauts when they donned special suits to enter reactors where they replaced damaged fuel-carrying tubes
6/30/1987
Pattern in concrete holds up 3-foot-thick walls 159 feet high and 2-foot-thick roof in Pickering's containment tower
Pattern in concrete holds up 3-foot-thick walls 159 feet high and 2-foot-thick roof in Pickering's containment tower
5/27/1969
Pickering's nuclear plant: The big building in the foreground can suck dangerous air from the four reactors in case of emergency
Pickering's nuclear plant: The big building in the foreground can suck dangerous air from the four reactors in case of emergency
8/2/1971
New reactors at pickering are going up
New reactors at pickering are going up
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Expaning the nuclear plant. Four new reactors, to be completed by 1982, will double the size and capacity of the Pickering Nuclear Power Station and w(...)
1/9/1975
Nuclear power station operated by Ontario Hydro at Pickering put its first reactor unit into operation last February, and last month it was turning ou(...)
Nuclear power station operated by Ontario Hydro at Pickering put its first reactor unit into operation last February, and last month it was turning ou(...)
8/3/1971
Peek-a-boo model details generation and transmission system in the Pickering nuclear station 20 miles from downtown Toronto. In 1973, reactors will ge(...)
Peek-a-boo model details generation and transmission system in the Pickering nuclear station 20 miles from downtown Toronto. In 1973, reactors will ge(...)
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