Will New Brunswick choose a ‘small, modular’ nuclear reactor that’s not small at all (among other problems)?
NB Power seems determined to build at least two experimental reactors at the Point Lepreau nuclear site, but their chosen ...
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Will Susan Holt’s new government continue New Brunswick’s nuclear fantasies?
Successive New Brunswick governments have been bewitched by two nuclear fantasies: first, its beleaguered public utility NB Power can connect ...
Reduce power costs, keep the lights on, lose the nuclear albatross!
The Point Lepreau nuclear plant has been out of service for more than five months. NB Power says the main ...
New Brunswick’s nuclear-powered rate hikes
The abject failure of this and previous governments' energy policies is on full display these days. In the 1970s, New ...
Where will New Brunswick’s small modular nuclear waste go?
The Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO), an industry organization charged with finding a home for all of Canada’s used nuclear ...
Do the research and end the nuclear hype in New Brunswick
New Brunswick's ARC nuclear project is in trouble. This situation highlights the lack of critical knowledge about nuclear reactor designs ...
Selling NB Power again?
In 2010, the New Brunswick government tried to sell NB Power. Then, it tried to sell “just” the hydro-electric power ...
Peskotomuhkati Chief denounces Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission’s public hearing process as a ‘feel good exercise’
During the early afternoon of May 10, 2022, Chief Hugh Akagi of the Peskotomuhkati Nation took the stand at a ...
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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