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Environmental Effects Modelling and Monitoring
Options for Nuclear Generating Stations
Ontario Hydro
ESSA led a team of systems analysts, aquatic
scientists, and resource managers in a series of projects to develop
and evaluate a simulation model of the potential aquatic environmental
effects of large nuclear generating stations. Participants from
both the proponent agency and regulatory agencies worked together
under ESSA's guidance to develop conceptual models of the aquatic
environment expressed as a series of hypotheses of effect. These
hypotheses were then used as the basis for a simulation model of
aquatic ecological effects. Through a series of iterations, the
simulation model was refined to the stage where it could be used
to examine event probabilities and to define appropriate sampling
regimes for monitoring programs. Working models and monitoring programs
were developed for the Darlington, Pickering and Bruce Nuclear Generating
Stations, as well as for the Atikokan Thermal Generating Station.
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