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The energy ground-game: coming soon to Courtice, Ontario
The Darlington Nuclear Generating Station on Lake Ontario is the second-largest clean energy centre in the Western Hemisphere (the largest is the Bruce nuclear plant on the east shore of Lake Huron). A...
View ArticleWhen Black Friday comes: some thoughts on nuclear power and the end of the world
The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC), Canada’s nuclear regulator, yesterday accepted a proposed $14.2 billion guarantee by Ontario Power Generation (OPG) for decommissioning Ontario’s major...
View ArticleCANDU in Japan: different, proven, and symbiotic with the current fleet
The new Japanese prime minister, Shinzo Abe, recently told a television interviewer that he wants to see new nuclear reactors built in Japan. He said that these should be “totally different” from the...
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Nuclear medicine in Northern Ontario: another spinoff benefit from the CANDU...
Bruce Power, by far Canada’s single largest electricity generating plant, is also the biggest clean energy centre in the western hemisphere. The plant’s eight CANDU nuclear generating units are capable...
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Atomic Energy Canada: the biggest applied R&D payoff in Canada’s history
In the wake of last week’s federal budget, Canadian newspapers have been publishing a lot of material on the current government’s approach to research and development funding. I am a professional...
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Efficiency and symbolism in Canadian health care and medicine exports
In three and a half years, the operating license of the National Research Universal (NRU) nuclear reactor at Chalk River will expire. The NRU is a hugely important piece of research equipment, arguably...
View ArticleCanadian federal climate change dilemma: an easy solution
Since beginning this blog, I have urged the federal Conservative government to claim credit for the Ontario Achievement in carbon dioxide (CO2) emission reductions. Ontario’s electricity generating...
View ArticleCross-sector carbon offsets: how to sell Keystone to Obama
Canada’s Conservative government has been driving hard for years to help TransCanada Corporation persuade the U.S. president to approve the Keystone XL pipeline. The Canadian feds must be wondering how...
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Canada’s carbon reductions: giving credit where it’s due
Last week’s minor bombshell pre-announcement from the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that mankind, though carbon dioxide emissions from the use of fossil fuel, is very likely to have...
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Exporting low carbon electricity infrastructure: what Canada can do for the...
In the economic boom of the 1950s, Canada made a strategic gamble on its industrial future: it invested in developing the CANDU nuclear reactor. The CANDU was invented as a conscious decision to...
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