Big costs sink flagship nuclear project and will sink future small modular reactor projects too

More nuclear reactors (SMRs): A bad investment for New Brunswick

The major news in the world of nuclear energy this month is the collapse of the Carbon Free Power Project in ...

Nuclear and biomass central to New Brunswick’s ‘net zero’ energy plan

October 17, 2023

Premier Blaine Higgs was in Ottawa on Monday with Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston to lobby the federal government for ...

A group of people are gathered on a dirt mound. A red radioactive symbol is next to them.

NB Power has its head stuck in uranium

by Tom McLean and Susan O'Donnell

September 1, 2023

NB Power seems to want to be a nuclear utility no matter how much it costs or whether or not ...

Wishful thinking about nuclear energy won’t get us to net zero

by M. V. Ramana and Susan O'Donnell

July 7, 2023

On June 20, the Canada Energy Regulator (CER) released its 2023 Canada's Energy Future report, developing scenarios for a path to ...

POEM: SMR Sam

by Lawrence Wuest

June 14, 2023

SMR Sam is the man with the plan a snake oil cure for the ills of the land The boys ...

Moltex’s nuclear ransom note should be rejected

by Susan O’Donnell and M. V. Ramana

March 2, 2023

Moltex Energy Canada Inc. — a startup company from the U.K., now based in New Brunswick — has sent the ...

OPEN LETTER: Contest promoting nuclear energy in schools harms critical thinking

by Kathrin Winkler et al

February 15, 2023

For educators, teaching students how to deconstruct bias and how to enhance critical thinking skills is an overarching curriculum mandate. ...

Small modular nuclear reactors are unsafe: CRED-NB [video]

by Arun Budhathoki

January 26, 2023

The Coalition for Responsible Energy Development in New Brunswick is questioning the federal environment minister’s rejection of an impact assessment ...

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Shouldn’t a new and experimental nuclear reactor for New Brunswick deserve a federal impact assessment?

by Susan O’Donnell and M. V. Ramana

January 16, 2023

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 ...

Indigenous groups challenge New Brunswick’s costly radioactive waste legacy

No legitimate reason to support the controversial nuclear technology planned for New Brunswick

by M.V. Ramana and Susan O'Donnell

November 26, 2022

NB Power plans to develop new nuclear reactors at Point Lepreau that will use a controversial technology with implications for ...

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