The Nuclear Model

• High cost
• Low efficiency
• Expensive to maintain
• Prone to breakdowns
• Big environmental footprint

Nuclear is already costing you a bundle

Every month, your hydro bill includes a reminder of the long history of cost overruns from Ontario nuclear projects. In the 1990s, the massive $20 billion debt piled up by the then essentially bankrupt Ontario Hydro was handed over to Ontario ratepayers, who have begun the long process of paying it down through monthly installments.

And too think that nuclear advocates once claimed that nuclear power would be "too cheap to meter."

There are better answers to meeting our electricity needs >

You pay for Ontario's horrendous record of nuclear overspending every month