Upcoming Darlington Licensing Hearing

CNSC (the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission) will be holding a licensing hearing from June 24 – 26, 2025.

OPG (Ontario Power Generation) is requesting from the CNSC a 30-year licence for the gigantic nuclear complex located at the Darlington Nuclear Generating Station in Durham Region, 60 kilometres east of Toronto.

Yes. You heard that correctly. A 30-year licence.

PUBLIC HEARING location

Chestnut Hill Recreation Complex, 1867 Valley Farm Road, Pickering, Ontario.

The hearing will be webcast live here.

For materials relating to the hearing, you have options!

The (now-revised) agenda can be found here.

To download particular submission documents – from the industry & its “regulators;” and from citizens, various organizations & NGOs – click here.

Or, go to this link, where (if you scroll down to June 24-26, 2025 – Part-2 Public Hearing – Ontario Power Generation), you’ll see 2 links provided for downloading ALL documents in Zip files.

Durham Nuclear Awareness (DNA)’s submission

“There has not existed the slightest shred of meaningful evidence that the entire intervention process in nuclear energy is anything more than the most callous of charades and frauds.” – Dr. John Gofman, M.D., Ph.D. in “Irrevy” – An Irreverent, Illustrated View of Nuclear Power <pg 125>

** Find many more pithy nuclear-related quotations on this site under the ‘Resources’ tab up top.