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Big costs sink flagship nuclear project and will sink future small modular reactor projects, too
The major news in the world of nuclear energy this month is the collapse of the Carbon Free Power Project in the United States. The project was to build six NuScale small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs). Given NuScale’s status as the flagship SMR design not just in the U.S. but even globally, the project’s cancellation…
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Small nuclear reactors in Canada: at what cost? • Petits réacteurs nucléaires au Canada : à quel prix ?
Media release from CRED-NB and collaborators. Le français suit… From: Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility In collaboration with and endorsed by: Clean Green Saskatchewan Coalition for Responsible Energy Development in New Brunswick Friends of the Earth Canada Inter-Church Uranium Committee Educational Cooperative (Saskatchewan) Ontario Clean Air Alliance Prevent Cancer Now Le Regroupement des organismes environnementaux en…
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How much public funding will new nuclear reactors require?
CRED-NB is part of a national network of groups publishing the new SMRs Information Task Force bulletins. The second one addresses the question: How much public funding will new nuclear reactors require? Nuclear power is heavily subsidized by federal taxpayers as well as those in Ontario and New Brunswick. Much of the money spent on…
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CRED-NB recommends guidelines for the ARC-100 Environmental Impact Assessment
NB Power is proposing to develop an experimental nuclear reactor design, the ARC-100, on the Point Lepreau nuclear site on the Bay of Fundy. The Government of New Brunswick, which is funding and promoting the project, will also conduct the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA). The government asked the public to provide feedback on the draft…
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New video: Nuclear Energy and the Bomb
Most people around the world learned about power of the atom from newspapers on August 7, 1945 after the U.S. military dropped a nuclear bomb that destroyed the city of Hiroshima in Japan and killed or injured 140,000 people. Three days later, the U.S. dropped a second bomb on the city of Nagasaki. After the…
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Why are SMRs a dog’s breakfast of designs?
CRED-NB is part of a national network of groups publishing the new SMRs Information Task Force bulletins. The first one addresses the question: Why are SMRs a dog’s breakfast of designs? As of 2023 roughly 50 small modular reactor (SMR) designs are under development, with electrical generating capacity varying between 5 and 300 megawatts. Compared…
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Gordon Edwards at CHCO-TV in St. Andrews
Dr. Edwards was in New Brunswick last week for the CEDAR events at St. Thomas University. After the conference in Fredericton, he visited St. Andrews where he was interviewed for the Southwest Magazine TV show by host Vicki Hogarth. You can watch it here:
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New Brunswick confirms its nuclear plans: Another $7M for SMRs
Premier Higgs was in Ottawa on Oct. 17 looking for federal funding for New Brunswick’s plans to green the electricity grid and make the province “net-zero” by 2050. He confirmed that developing new reactor designs is a provincial priority, along with converting the NB Power coal-fired plant at Belledune to burning biomass. In response, the…
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CRED-NB brief to federal committee on natural resources
On October 3, CRED submitted a brief to the House of Commons standing committee on Natural Resources. The committee is studying Canada’s clean energy plans in the context of the North American energy transition. Our brief consisted of a document, Eleven reasons nuclear energy should not be part of Canada’s plans for a clean electricity…
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New Brunswick Indigenous communities and all New Brunswickers need facts, not sales hype, about SMNRs
Governments and other nuclear proponents are failing both Indigenous and settler communities by promoting sales and publicity material about small modular nuclear reactors (SMNRs) instead of sharing facts by independent researchers not tied to the industry. A commentary by Peskotomuhkati Chief Hugh Akagi and CRED-NB core member Susan O’Donnell was published by The Hill Times,…
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