Plutonium: from Nagasaki to New Brunswick
Today, August 9, is the 76th anniversary of the US military's atomic bombing of the City of Nagasaki in Japan. ...
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Scientists say New Brunswick’s plutonium plan is undermining the global nuclear weapons non-proliferation regime
The company Moltex Energy wants to extract plutonium from the thousands of used nuclear fuel bundles stored at Point Lepreau ...
We need a public consultation on radioactive waste in New Brunswick
Days before the current provincial election was called, I wrote to Seamus O'Regan, federal minister of Natural Resources, requesting that ...
Canada should acknowledge its role in the A bomb: Hiroshima survivor
Toronto’s Setsuko Thurlow survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, 75 years ago today. She wrote this letter to Prime Minister ...
Radioactive waste: a big problem for New Brunswick’s proposed new nuclear reactors
On June 26, the federal government ended the Environmental Assessment of a proposed radioactive waste storage facility beside Lake Huron, ...
New Brunswick groups want new nuclear projects suspended until feds have a plan for radioactive waste
More than 100 civil society groups across Canada, including nine in New Brunswick, signed a letter this week to the ...
Coalition promotes nuclear-free renewable energy in New Brunswick
A new coalition focusing on nuclear-free renewable energy in New Brunswick seeks to raise public awareness and advocate with legislators. ...
Proposed nuclear projects in New Brunswick would revive dangerous “plutonium economy”
The Government of New Brunswick is supporting proposals by two start-up multi-national companies with offices in Saint John to build ...
Scientist warns against nuclear expansion in New Brunswick
SAINT JOHN, N.B. – Governments and communities need to avoid nuclear expansion and invest in renewable energy, Canadian scientist Gordon ...
Small modular nuclear reactors – a case of wishful thinking at best
1 The Three Nuclear Amigos On Friday the 13th, September 2019, the Saint John Telegraph-Journal’s front page was dominated by ...
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