Shawn-Patrick Stensil: Put a stake in nuclear vampire
The nuclear industry's much-vaunted "renaissance" is playing out like a bad vampire flick.Every time it tries to crawl out of the grave it dug with earlier cost over-runs and the Chernobyl disaster, nuclear gets staked through the heart by an accountant.
The latest staking of the industry is the McGuinty government's decision to suspend the purchase of new reactors. They were supposed to cost a mere $6 billion and have suddenly been exposed as $26 billion monsters.
These monsters are the latest in a long line of untested reactors Atomic Energy of Canada Limited hopes will keep it alive.
But we don't even know if they'll work…
