See also “Nuclear Ontario: the end of the beginning?” March 1, 2011 Negotiations over the sale of Atomic Energy Canada Limited to a private sector buyer have broken down, and nobody should be surprised. The crux of the issue is the Darlington new reactor construction project. This issue is essentially between the governments of...
Monthly Archives: January 2011
Industrial strategy and cheap energy: why China is eating, and will keep eating, our lunch
Future historians may look at the early 21st Century as the time when China and India emerged as the third and fourth of the great continental powers of the post–Second World War era. The first two are of course the U.S.A and Soviet (and to a lesser extent, post-Soviet) Russia. What made these powers...
Nuclear maneuvering in Ontario: planning future agility
In recent posts on Ontario’s long-term energy plan, I have pointed out that wind power is actually gas power. That’s because wind is unreliable and needs to be balanced with gas-fired electricity. The following chart shows Ontario grid-connected wind farm output between December 22 and yesterday (January 4). Each column represents one wind farm’s...
Filthy lucre and nuclear non-proliferation: what keeps them apart
Review the literature on nuclear anti-proliferation, and you get the impression that used fuel from civilian power reactors is a major proliferation threat. Henry Sokolski, a prominent anti-proliferation expert, recently told Nucleonics Week that U.S. loan guarantees for nuclear plants are subsidies that could increase proliferation risks. Why? Because French and Russian companies are...
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