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 ...
Tag: SMNRs
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 ...
The elephant in the SMNR room: nuclear waste
Peskotomuhkati Chief Akagi remains critical of small modular nuclear reactors (SMNRs), despite industry attempts to convince the public otherwise. Two ...
Troublemaking: more questions about plutonium funding for New Brunswick and nuclear weapons proliferation
The threat of nuclear weapons being deployed by Vladimir Putin, and the potential weaponization of nuclear power plants in Ukraine, ...
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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 ...
Premier Higgs, is he a leader or a nuclear gambler?
In a recent commentary, Andrew Waugh, the political editor for Brunswick News, opined that Premier Blaine Higgs doesn’t mind being ...
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