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 ...
Tag: Point Lepreau
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 ...
New Brunswick’s nuclear reactor emits high levels of radioactivity, increasing cancer risk
New Brunswick Power's Point Lepreau nuclear reactor on the Bay of Fundy emits much higher levels of radioactive tritium than ...
Questions about nuclear energy and Point Lepreau in the news again
Nuclear power has been making headlines in recent weeks, with guest commentaries in all three New Brunswick daily papers critical ...
Uranium and nuclear energy in New Brunswick and beyond [video]
We have many choices in New Brunswick for generating the energy we need now and in the future. All our ...
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. ...
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 ...
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