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The Latest Updates on Our Website
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Nov 10, 2021 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada)
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This presentation provides an update to an earlier presentation “Re-imagining Nuclear Energy” provided to CACOR in Dec 2020. It will describe progress being made on the licensing and demonstration of Small Modular Reactor designs in Canada. It will outline the issues at play in bringing SMRs to market, using the Ontario market as a case study.
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See all scheduled CACOR presentations.
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Honeybees use social distancing to protect themselves against parasites by University College London Honeybees increase social distancing when their hive is under threat from a parasite, finds a new study led by an international team involving researchers at UCL and the University of Sassari, Italy. The study, published in Science Advances, demonstrated that honeybee colonies respond to infestation from a harmful mite by …
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Categories: Articles, Trending
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Why you should care about The Latent Heat of Fusion of Ice to Liquid Water Why is this topic a big deal? To melt 1 gram of ice requires 80 calories - the same amount of energy needed to raise one gram of water 80°C. That means that a large amount of global heating is being masked by the fact …
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Categories: Articles, What are you doing
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by Oliver Milman, Andrew Witherspoon, Rita Liu, and Alvin Chang The enormous, unprecedented pain and turmoil caused by the climate crisis is often discussed alongside what can seem like surprisingly small temperature increases – 1.5C or 2C hotter than it was in the era just before the car replaced the horse and cart. These temperature thresholds will again be the …
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Categories: Articles, Climate
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Africa let down African leaders are right to criticize the failure of the world’s 20 richest countries to come up with US$100-billion a year to assist developing countries in their fight against climate change, despite a decade-long commitment (Africa, Hit Hard By Climate Change, Plans Tougher Stance at Summit, Oct. 26). Instead, the target date to meet the annual amount …
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Categories: Articles, CACOR Groups
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In the near future, the energy made in the US is going to be much greener. The country’s current goal is for solar plants alone to make nearly half of US electricity by 2050. But we can’t just build solar plants where coal and gas plants used to be. They have to be built where it's… sunny. And wind turbines …
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Categories: Articles, Solutions
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Yesterday I had an appliance repairman in to fix our Bosch dishwasher which was making irreverent noises. Turned out he was Russian, Aberjanian, Jewish, had emigrated to Israel, served three years in Israeli Special Forces, later immigrated to Canada, wife and two kids, took training, got job as appliance repairman, and they are all happy here. He worked very diligently to examine our …
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Categories: Articles, CACOR Writers
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Public policy essentially shapes everything in our lives. Either you shape it or it shapes you. Jim Balsillie, Chair of the Council of Canadian Innovators, former chairman and co-chief executive officer of Research in Motion (now Blackberry Ltd.)
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Categories: Articles, Quotes
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