CACOR Live | Susan O’Donnell and M V Ramana | Nuclear Power in Canada: Prospects and Problems | 9 Sep 2026 at 13:30 EST

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Speaker: Susan O’Donnell and M V Ramana

Subject: Nuclear Power in Canada: Prospects and Problems

Time: 9 Sept 2026 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada)

Summary:
In June the government released a “Nuclear Energy Strategy for Canada” proposing construction of up to ten new large-scale reactors by “de-risking capital investment” with federal funding. This 2026 strategy was launched eight years after Canada’s small modular nuclear reactor “roadmap” that similarly proposed to “de-risk” the development of SMRs across the country. Although more than $4.5 billion in public funds have been spent, SMRs appear to have garnered almost no private sector investment and seem to have reached a dead end. The ten large-scale reactors proposed in the newer strategy would cost in the range of $100 to 200 billion. Who will pay those costs? Besides high costs, nuclear reactors also confront the risk of accidents and the unresolved challenge of dealing with the radioactive wastes produced.

Biography:
Susan O’Donnell is Adjunct Research Professor and Primary Investigator of the CEDAR research project at St. Thomas University, and co-author of the 2024 report, “Indigenous Views on Nuclear Energy and Radioactive Waste.” M.V. Ramana is Professor and Simons Chair in Disarmament, Global and Human Security at the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, and author of “Nuclear is Not the Solution – The Folly of Atomic Power in the Age of Climate Change.”

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