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FREDERICTON — More than four years after an earthquake and tsunami triggered a meltdown of three nuclear reactors in Japan, lessons learned are still being put into place at nuclear power plants in Canada.

But one critic is questioning whether the industry and the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission have gone far enough in preparing for potential disasters, particularly in light of climate change.

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Shawn-Patrick Stensil, a nuclear industry observer with Greenpeace, said while the technical changes mandated by the commission are good there also needs to be a new mind set in the nuclear industry after what happened at the Fukushima Daiichi facility.

Using a recent licence renewal hearing for the Bruce nuclear plants in Ontario as an example, he said discussions on tornado strengths were inadequate and more severe weather must be considered as a result of climate change.

“Fukushima should be a warning that we should be looking at these new, more extreme weather events in the risk assessments of all plants globally, and we haven’t done that yet,” Stensil added.