COMMENTARY: No legitimate reason to support the controversial nuclear technology planned for New Brunswick
NB Power plans to develop new nuclear reactors at Point Lepreau that will use a controversial technology with implications for ...
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COMMENTARY: Pull the plug on nuclear subsidies
The $970 million just announced by federal natural resources minister Jonathan Wilkinson to build a new reactor at the Darlington nuclear site ...
COMMENTARY: UNB’s commitment to nuclear contradicts alleged support for Truth and Reconciliation
By researching nuclear technologies, accepting funding from private industry and the state, and publicly advocating in favour of nuclear expansion, ...
Slow deployment, safety hazards make SMRs a poor climate solution
Editor’s note: The first part of this feature (“SMRs riddled with high costs, among other ‘unresolved problems”) was published by ...
SMRs riddled with high costs, among other ‘unresolved problems’
This is the first part of a feature story which previously appeared on the website of Peace Magazine on July ...
Analysis: NB’s English-language newspapers regularly favour industry, pro-nuclear perspectives on small modular reactors
In 1993, sociologist Michael Clow, accompanied by editor Susan Machum, published a book-length study analyzing Canadian newspapers’ coverage of nuclear ...
New Brunswick’s media coverage of small modular nuclear reactors silences Indigenous perspectives
In June 2018, the Government of New Brunswick committed $10 million to Moltex and ARC Canada, two engineering companies interested ...
Public trust eroded: Longer 10-year licence for Lepreau nuclear reactor reduces Indigenous and community input
Groups participating in the recent hearing to extend the operating licence of the Lepreau nuclear reactor on the Bay of ...
Indigenous groups challenge New Brunswick’s costly radioactive waste legacy
The recent re-licencing hearing for New Brunswick's Point Lepreau nuclear reactor highlighted the difficulty and cost of managing the province's long-lived legacy of radioactive waste. Most ...
Public hearing calls attention to the threat of nuclear energy in New Brunswick. Passamaquoddy Nation responds.
On Tuesday, the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) held a public hearing in Saint John to discuss and hear interventions ...
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