Pull the plug on nuclear subsidies
The $970 million just announced by federal natural resources minister Jonathan Wilkinson to build a new reactor at the Darlington nuclear site ...
Tag: SMRs
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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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