Helen Caldicott is a charming lady: passionate, pleasant, and engaging. She is also hopelessly wrong about her anti-nuclear cause, a fact which is so obvious that it is difficult to refrain from expressing frustration and even annoyance when speaking with her. I debated her once, on TVO, and thought I was being gentle in the…
Listening to American politicians talk about energy security and clean energy is sometimes like listening to Captain Queeg testifying at the court martial: at first it sounds congruous, coherent, and believable, but upon the easiest cross examination it rapidly collapses under its own contradiction and irrelevancies. This is especially true with those politicians who fancy…
To dump or not to dump: that is the question: Whether ’tis nobler in Ontario to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous phony-green profiteering, or to take arms against a sea of carbon dioxide emissions, and by opposing—i.e., by extending the operating license of the Pickering nuclear generating station, which spews no carbon—end them……
The new Japanese prime minister, Shinzo Abe, recently told a television interviewer that he wants to see new nuclear reactors built in Japan. He said that these should be “totally different” from the current ones, which are light water designs of the pressurized-water or boiling-water variety. He should consider the Canadian CANDU. It is totally…
The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC), Canada’s nuclear regulator, yesterday accepted a proposed $14.2 billion guarantee by Ontario Power Generation (OPG) for decommissioning Ontario’s major nuclear facilities. In other words, CNSC says it is confident that OPG will be able to pay the costs of decommissioning these facilities. Now, $14.2 billion sounds like a lot…
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