OPEN LETTER: Contest promoting nuclear energy in schools harms critical thinking
For educators, teaching students how to deconstruct bias and how to enhance critical thinking skills is an overarching curriculum mandate. ...
Tag: small modular nuclear reactors
Shouldn’t a new and experimental nuclear reactor for New Brunswick deserve a federal impact assessment?
The federal minister of Environment and Climate Change has chosen to ignore public concerns about a small modular nuclear reactor (SMR) for New Brunswick, favouring the nuclear industry and weakening oversight ...
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 ...
Option B for Point Lepreau: Alternatives to more nuclear reactors in New Brunswick
Many people and groups want NB Power and the provincial government to plan a nuclear-free renewable energy future in the ...
New nuclear plants (SMRs) in New Brunswick: Wild card or sure bet?
While the world is turning overwhelmingly toward renewable sources of energy, currently about four times cheaper than new nuclear plants ...
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Party election platforms: Should new nuclear reactors be part of Canada’s climate action plan?
The nuclear industry lobby in Canada is conducting an intensive campaign for public funding to build new nuclear reactors - ...
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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Susan O’Donnell on Small Modular Nuclear Reactors: Who’s pushing them and why should Canadians care? [video]
Susan O’Donnell joined a panel for a discussion following the film screening of The Atom: A Love Affair, an event ...
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 ...
Hampton High students support Wolastoq Grand Council resolution against nuclear development
The Climate Action Team at Hampton High School (HHS) are not only activists but also allies to Indigenous peoples. Today ...
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