When you look at packed audience halls at a nuclear industry convention, you know there is activity in the industry. Last week’s Canadian Nuclear Association annual conference and trade show was very well attended, and not just by the Ontario…
Category: Nuclear regulation
The cost of Ontario power: jobs, no jobs, and snowjobs
The mayor of Sarnia, anxious perhaps to divert public attention from the molecular-level particle interactions that provide so many of his constituents with such well-paying employment, loudly proclaimed in 2011 his opposition to sub-atomic-level interactions apropos of Bruce Power’s plan…
Nuclear waste versus time/money waste: which is worse? An international exercise in comic-book posturing
An interesting exchange of diplomatic letters between the U.S. State of Michigan and the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission on the matter of the proposed underground nuclear waste repository on the Canadian side of Lake Huron highlights the concern on the…
Port Hope uranium workers had lower mortality and cancer than rest of Canadian population, says British Medical Journal study
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…
U.S. used nuclear fuel: the elephant is a mouse, is the solution to America’s power generation problems
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…