Pickering is Canada's oldest and most dangerous nuclear station. Just 30 km from downtown Toronto, the Pickering nuclear station is closer than any other nuclear reactor in the world to a major population centre.


After the Chernobyl accident in 1986, over 350,000 in a 30 km zone around the nuclear station had to be permanently relocated, destroying local communities.


In the Greater Toronto Area, 2.5 million people live within 30 kilometers of the Pickering nuclear station - a distance that spans from Yonge Street to Oshawa.


The nuclear industry said Chernobyl would never happen. It did.


Imagine if an accident occurred at Pickering. (read less)

Pickering is Canada's oldest and most dangerous nuclear station. Just 30 km from downtown Toronto, the Pickering nuclear station is closer than any other nuclear reactor in the world to a major population centre.


After the Chernobyl accident in 1986, over 350,000 in a 30 km zone around the nuclear station had to be permanently relocated, destroying local communities.


In the Greater Toronto Area, 2.5 million people live within 30 kilometers of the Pickering nuclear station - a distance that... (read more)