If you don’t like the tens of thousands of “superfluous” nuclear weapons in the U.S. and Russian arsenals, or any nuclear weapons for that matter, you should be encouraged to know that the U.S. and Russia agreed, in the years…
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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…
Uranium in Saskatchewan: as safe as broadcasting
My home province, Ontario, runs in large part on uranium from Saskatchewan. Check Tables 1 and 2 in the left-hand sidebar: they show the sources of Ontario electricity over two periods, in descending order from largest to smallest. At almost…
The Nanticoke Energy Centre: Ontario’s hub of clean electricity, motor vehicle fuel, and high value chemicals
Ontario is set to mothball a hugely valuable asset, in the form of eight perfectly operational coal-fired generating units. With a combined capacity of 4,000 megawatts, the Nanticoke generating plant is one of the biggest of its type in the…
Environmental review, a.k.a. Death-by-Delay, in Canada: public opinion and vote strategy
Robert Caro’s new book on LBJ is out. This time he covers LBJ’s transition from VP to president in the aftermath of JFK’s assassination. LBJ’s priority at the time, according to Caro, was implementing one particular part of JFK’s legislative…