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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...