Alan Emery has spoken to the CACOR lunnch meetings in Ottawa recently; this appeared in the Wall Street Journal on Feb 25. The Nuclear Option Is the Real Green Deal. A coal plant produces about as much toxic waste in an hour as a nuclear plant produces in a year. John Rie and Alan Emery […]
Going Renewable Means Phasing Out Our Aging Nuclear Reactors
Going renewable means phasing out our aging nuclear reactors. Ontario is the 2nd most nuclearized jurisdiction in the world – we get 60% of our electricity from 18 nuclear reactors. But accidents happen, and when nuclear accidents happen, they’re catastrophic. What would happen if a serious nuclear accident, similar to what took place in Fukushima, Japan […]