The Canadian to be reviewed nuclear power safety

The Canada has five nuclear power plants in different States of operation.

The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission has established a working group to assess the impact of operational, technical and regulatory of the nuclear disaster at the Japan for the Canadian plants.

Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex was severely damaged by the March 11 earthquake and the tsunami that hit the northeastern coast of the Japan and continues to release radiation into the environment as officers work desperately to get the reactors under control.

The geese of the standing Canada near Pickering Ontario Hydro nuclear power station. Ontario Hydro is the most important power in North America. Andy Clark/Reuters.

The Canadian commission has decided to implement the Working Group at its meeting of March 30.

"The members of the Working Group will examine the responses of the licensees at the request of CNSC information under subsection 12 (2) the General nuclear safety and regulation of review to review the respective cases of the safety of their nuclear installations."", underlying in-depth defence against externesscénarios of serious accidents and guidelines and emergency procedures," said a press release of the CNSC.

The Canada has seven nuclear power plants located at five locations in Ontario, Quebec and New Brunswick.

Employment of the Working Group will be recommending short and long term measures to address Canadian nuclear Central significant deficiencies and determine if design changes are necessary.

The Fukushima Daiichi crippled nuclear plant sees this picture Tokyo Electric Power Co., exit on April 14. The utility giant still works on a plan to end the nuclear crisis a month after the start. Tokyo Electric Power Co./Reuters

The Working Group recommends that, if appropriate, potential changes in regulatory requirements, for inspection and programs policies for CANDU reactors and for potential new nuclear power plants, according to the release of the commission.

Members will also determine priorities for the implementation of corrective actions based on lessons learned and the need, if any, for further examination. The Working Group will present its findings to the commission at a public forum, even if the date has not yet been decided.

The Working Group will be chaired by Greg Rzentkowski, the Director-General of regulation of nuclear power, and members will consist of senior experts in the design of the reactor, security assessment and the emergency preparedness and response.

The most recent accident at a Canadian nuclear power plant was in mid-March when 73 000 litres of water demineralized leak in Lake Ontario of the Pickering a nuclear power plant.

Ontario Power Generation, which operates the plant, located 35 kilometres east of Toronto, told the CNSC that seal of pump failure was the cause.

Ontario Power Generation, said that the risk was minimal, but that these leaks are not supposed to happen.

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Path of light power to legalizing marijuana

A decision of the Court of Ontario which could legalize possession of marijuana in the province is considered by the Federal Government, officials said.

"The Government of the Canada is to review the decision and will consider its options," Leslie Meerburg, spokesperson for Health Canada, said Wednesday in an e-mail.

A worker affects a cannabis plant in a growing medical marijuana in Israel installation. (Nir Elias/Reuters)

Justice Donald Taliano gave Ottawa until July to correct federal program of medical marijuana or face the prospect of effectively legalizing the possession and production of cannabis.

In a decision issued earlier this week, Taliano found the program unconstitutional because patients cannot get medical marijuana by appropriate means and must resort to illegal actions such as the culture of their own food.

Therefore, sick people should be able to obtain drugs are marked as criminals, he said in the decision.

Justice of St. Catharines stated the invalid program, and laws prohibiting the possession and production of cannabis, since they can be used criminally charge medical users unable to obtain drugs routes legal.

If left to stand, the decision - which takes effect in 90 days - would make possession and production of legal marijuana in Ontario, said Alan Young, a Toronto lawyer involved in several other challenges to the law of cannabis in the Canada.

This would encourage judges in other provinces to invalidate the law in their courts, when confronted with similar cases, he said.

The case would probably lead to the Supreme Court of the Canada, which may adjudicate federal laws, he said.

"Health Canada has no Plan B," Young said Wednesday. "Therefore the reflex response will be of appeal" and fight vigorously to obtain a stay of judgment which would maintain the law in place until that appeal is resolved, he said.""

"This case is exposing only the tip of the iceberg in terms of potential litigation against the Government of the Canada, so that they can defend all this they want using, but they are not going to escape the assault", he added.

"It makes more sense to admit defeat, surrender and come to something that helps Canadians to really.".

The judge's decision came in a criminal case involving Matthew Mernagh, 37, of St. Catharines, who suffers from Fibromyalgia, scoliosis, seizures and depression.

Unable to find a doctor that would support his application for a licence of medical marijuana, Mernagh began to develop his own and was eventually charged with producing the drug.

Taliano concluded that doctors across the country largely ignored the Health Canada medical marijuana program and refused to sign off the coast on forms that allow people to legally obtain cannabis.

Counsel for the MERNAGH, Paul Lewin, said he is confident that the decision will be confirmed by the Court of appeal for Ontario.

During this time, Mernagh was granted an exemption which allows him to smoke and to cultivate cannabis.

"I have already started the germination of seeds," he said.

Medical marijuana in the Canada program was created in 2000, after the Court of appeal for Ontario confirmed a right Torontonians to smoke pot to alleviate his seizures.

In this case, the Court in Ottawa a year to change the law so that patients can access the medicines they need, or see that it struck down completely.

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