The Most Polite Strikers Ever and Nuclear Energy in Canada

The CANDU's fuel assembly Way up north, a group of nuclear engineers are striking against contractors of Canada’s Candu Energy. They hav...

In a Land of Wolves

In the short surrealist documentary Land Without Bread (1933), Luis Bunuel makes a point that has always stuck with me: good intentions can...

Google and Amazon–And Nuclear Power?

Does America Online still exist? Why, yes it does, though it seems to have changed its business model considerably – it isn’t supporting the...

Concerns and Then There Are Concerns

And the Premier of New Brunswick, Canada  doesn't have any : The premier of New Brunswick says he has no concerns about resuming nuclear...

Reasons to Be Thankful

Shall Canada be thankful ? The government of Ontario, Canada’s most populous province, announced plans to spend billions of dollars mo...

O Canada: ElBaradei and the Oil Sands

Mohammed ElBaradei, the previous head of the IAEA, is in Canada to talk about energy security. When I read something like this from him: ...

Terminating the Alien Abyss: A Titanic Endorsement of Nuclear Energy – True, No Lies

James Cameron, the world’s most money making film director, was visiting the Canadian tar sands (which the Canadians call oilsands – I gues...

Around the World with Nuclear Energy

Around the world: France has made a deal with Kuwait: An agreement "to develop the peaceful use of nuclear energy" was si...

Apathy in Canada, Catering to Nuclear

Alberta doesn’t care about nuclear energy; it doesn’t care at all. But if someone has a plant they might like to put up… "We...

Some Weekend Reading

Always learning, always growing, right? The Whitaker Group provides the argument that nuclear energy can buy African countries energy sec...

This Island Earth: Following Up on Some Recent Stories

One thing journalist types like to do is follow up on previous stories to see where they've gotten to, if anywhere. It provides continu...

Go West, Young Power Plant: Nuclear Energy in Alberta

We've noted Ontario's interest in nuclear energy and now Alberta  takes a crack at it (courtesy of The Prairie Post ): The de...

The Rough and the Smooth in Canada

An editorial in the Ottawa Citizen offers some surprises. Here's the rough: The latest fiasco in the world of nuclear is that th...

Early Sightings in Alberta

With Ontario gung ho on nuclear energy, it's interesting to see a glimmer of interest develop in Alberta . The provincial government has...

Ontario to Go All Nuclear?

That's what this article from Reuters Canada seems to be saying: Ontario, keen to close its remaining coal-fired power plants, sai...

Quebec Looks to Overhaul Gentilly-2

Details from the Canadian Press .

On Chalk River

For the most part, we concentrate on the news coming out of the commercial nuclear energy industry, but there's an incredibly important ...

If Maine Won't Build New Energy Infrastructure ...

... Then New Brunswick will . That also means they'll get the jobs and economic benefits too.

Canada Joins GNEP

Details from David Akin .

Movement in Ontario in Funding Carbon-Free Energy?

Steven Aplin has the details.