In 1976 U.S. president Gerald Ford announced that the U.S. would stop reprocessing used civilian nuclear fuel. The trigger for this decision was of course political: the announcement was on October 28, and in five days there would be a general election in which Ford was the Republican presidential candidate. But why would such an arcane issue attain such prominence that a presidential candidate would feel obliged to stake out …Read the rest of the article
Posts in the DUPIC Category at Canadian Energy Issues
January 14, 2010
Doomsday Clock reset to six minutes before midnight: breathe easy, people of East and South Asia
Steve Aplin
September 21, 2009
Areva still eyes Ontario, mulls involvement in “NRU II” as CNSC approves new CANDU design
Steve Aplin