No Nukes News: Not fit for service

Fri Aug 20 13:48:54 EDT 2021

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Nuclear Energy is too slow to deploy to help us meet our #climate targets, and it will leave us with a legacy of toxic radioactive waste. Send a message to Canada's Deputy PM and your MP here: NoNewNuclear.ca  

Canada and the World

☢ Canada's nuclear reactors may not be fit for service Is Canada's nuclear regulator nothing more than a rubber stamp commission, protecting industry profits at the expense of public safety?

☢ The CNSC is not requiring proper safety data from nuclear operators 9 min. podcast by Sarah Gabrielle Baron. Read more here and here from the Ontario Clean Air Alliance.

☢ Former Ontario Ministers of Health, Environment and Energy ask CNSC to appoint Dr. Frank Greening to their External Advisory Committee on Pressure Tubes In response to nuclear operators (Bruce Power and OPG) providing inaccurate safety data of critical pressure tubes, the CNSC established an External Advisory Cttee.

☢ Trudeau's multi-million dollar nuclear deal called out by non-proliferation experts The technology used to extract plutonium from spent fuel could be used to make nuclear bombs. Canadians deserve to be fully briefed on all this and its implications. They deserve to know who owns Moltex, what the risks are to non-proliferation and why taxpayers are sinking millions of dollars into a project that’s morally questionable and potentially hazardous.

☢ Plutonium: From Nagasaki to New Brunswick Plutonium is the primary nuclear explosive in the world’s nuclear arsenals and is created inside every nuclear power reactor. Nuclear advocates have long dreamed of using plutonium as a reactor fuel. But once plutonium has been extracted, it can be used either for weapons or for fuel. Canada has gifted a UK company $50 million to move forward with plutonium reprocessing in New Brunswick. It’s time for a national review.

☢ Global nuclear cabal exposed $72.6 billion! That's how much the world's nine nuclear-armed states spent last year on their nuclear weapons, during the worst global pandemic yet experienced. These shocking numbers, and more, are revealed in ICAN's new report: Complicit: 2020 Global Nuclear Weapons Spending. Countries, corporations and think tanks are all part of this cabal.

☢ Can Nuclear Power’s Deadly Waste Be Contained in a Warming World? The fact that reactors don’t emit carbon while operating doesn’t mean nuclear energy is “clean.”

☢ More Nuclear Power Isn’t Needed. So Why Do Governments Keep Hyping It?

☢ Small nuclear reactor advocates refuse to learn the lessons of the past Small modular reactors won’t achieve economies of scale, won’t be faster to construct, won’t be cheaper, still face very large security costs, will still be costly and slow to decommission, will still produce deadly waste, and will still require liability insurance caps. 

Ontario
☢ Ontario’s Unfunded Nuclear Decommissioning Liability Is In The $18–$27 Billion Range Ontario’s nuclear program will be a fiscal burden on Ontarian’s to the tune of around $40 billion CAD which will be spent through roughly 2135, finally being paid off by the great-grandchildren of babies born in 2021. 

Renewables and Conservation
☼ An ideal marriage? The battle to match US clean energy demand with excess Canadian hydropower In its efforts to de-carbonize its grid and reduce costs, the US is looking to Canada to supply it with our surplus renewable water power. Ontario likewise could save $billions and lower pollution by replacing our dirty gas and high cost nukes with surplus Quebec water power. 

Take Action

☢ Tell Ottawa: no more funding for new nuclear reactors Tell federal Ministers to stop wasting our $ on polluting nuclear reactors.

☢ Please send a message to Deputy PM Chrystia Freeland Tell her to instruct the CNSC to close Pickering and redo the flawed tests that the CNSC flagged and then ignored.

☢ Tell the CNSC to put safety before OPG's profits The CNSC must put a moratorium on the continued operation of the Pickering nuclear station until OPG has submitted proper safety data.

☢ Say no to new nuclear in the GTA Tell Ontario's political leaders that you want investments in wind and solar energy, not a new GTA nuclear reactor.

☢ Decommission the Pickering Nuclear Station immediately after shutdown in 2024 This would provide a jobs transition for the workers and would reclaim the Pickering waterfront.

☢ Stop the Disposal of Nuclear Waste in Northwestern Ontario High-level nuclear waste should be managed using a "rolling stewardship" concept, rather than burying it in a deep geological repository. Learn more.

☢ Nuclear waste should not be buried and abandoned The Nuclear Waste Management Organization is proposing a deep geological repository to abandon spent nuclear fuel bundles underground in South Bruce, Ontario.

☢ Say no to nuclear waste in Labrador The citizens of Newfoundland and Labrador do not want to be the nuke waste dump for the world.

☢ International Petition Against the Discharge of Contaminated Water from Fukushima into the Sea And here's another. 

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