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Advisers to nuclear regulator bolster industry position on deteriorating pressure tubes
Ontario has a homegrown solution to the problem of decarbonizing its energy supply in CANDU nuclear technology. To meet increased demand and zero-carbon energy by 2050, new nuclear reactors will be needed in the province.
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Reliable dividends from the nuclear sector
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energy and resources
Canadian miner IsoEnergy to buy Consolidated Uranium amid clean energy demand boom
Bay Street sign at the intersection of King Street in downtown Toronto Wednesday afternoon July 30/2003. Photo By Deborah Baic 30/07/03
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Ottawa yet to decide whether reprocessing spent nuclear fuel should be allowed in Canada
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Candu or can’t? That’s the big question as AtkinsRéalis’ CEO pushes toward a nuclear future
Interview by Eric Reguly with Ian Leslie Edwards, CEO of SNC Lavalin, in Castel Rigone, Umbria, Italy on Sept., 30th, 2023. Photo by Fabrizio Troccoli/ The Globe and Mail
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Hyped up uranium investors face political fallout risk
Gavin Maguire
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Canada loans $3-billion to Romania to complete construction of two nuclear reactors
Canada's Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Jonathan Wilkinson speaks during Question Period in the House of Commons, on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada September 19, 2023. REUTERS/Blair Gable
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Canada signs $3-billion deal to finance nuclear power in Romania
Canada is helping finance two new nuclear reactors in Romania which that country's energy minister says will help diminish the ability of Russia to use its energy exports as a weapon. Energy and Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson answers a question during question period in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
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Cameco shares surge on uranium prices as governments warm to nuclear power
A Cameco employee is shown during a Cameco media tour of the uranium mine in Cigar Lake, Wednesday, September 23, 2015. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Liam Richards
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Rwanda signs deal with Canadian startup to build nuclear reactor
A Rwandan flag is seen on the shoulder patch of a soldier in Mocimboa da Praia, northern Mozambique, on August 12, 2021. Apart from a few soldiers on patrol, the streets are deserted and there is not a sound: Mocimboa, a strategic port in the north of Mozambique occupied until recently by armed jihadist groups, is a ghost town, between wild grass and ruined buildings. Some of the houses used by the jihadists -- who have been sowing terror in the north of the country for more than three years and took the town just a year ago -- are preceded by signs in Swahili: "Do not enter" or even "Do not destroy". (Photo by Emidio JOZINE / AFP) (Photo by EMIDIO JOZINE/AFP via Getty Images)
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U.S. sending depleted uranium anti-tank rounds to Ukraine to help Kyiv fight Russia's invasion
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Japan announces emergency relief for seafood exporters hit by China’s ban over Fukushima water
In this photo provided by Cabinet Public Affairs Office, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida eats the seafood from Fukushima prefecture at lunch at the prime minister's office in Tokyo, Japan, Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2023. (Cabinet Public Affairs Office via AP)
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Japan announces emergency relief measures for seafood exporters hit by China’s ban
In this photo provided by Cabinet Public Affairs Office, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida eats the seafood from Fukushima prefecture at lunch at the prime minister's office in Tokyo, Japan, Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2023. (Cabinet Public Affairs Office via AP)
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To reach net-zero, people and businesses must start generating their own electricity
David O’Reilly
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U.S. to send controversial depleted-uranium munitions to Ukraine
Russian service members walk near a burnt car following recent shelling in the course of Russia-Ukraine conflict in Donetsk, Russian-controlled Ukraine, September 1, 2023. REUTERS/Alexander Ermochenko
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SNC-Lavalin stands ready as Hydro-Québec eyes renewed push into nuclear power
Konrad Yakabuski
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Japan complains of harassment calls from China over Fukushima water release
FILE PHOTO: A view of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant after it started releasing treated radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean, seen from the nearby Ukedo fishing port in Namie town, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, Aug. 25, 2023. REUTERS/Tom Bateman/File Photo
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Morning Update: Donald Trump surrenders to face charges in Georgia election-subversion case, submits to mug shot
ATLANTA, GEORGIA - AUGUST 24: Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to the media at Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport after surrendering at the Fulton County jail on August 24, 2023 in Atlanta, Georgia. Trump was booked on multiple charges related to an alleged plan to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in Georgia. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
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Japan discharges Fukushima water, prompting China and Hong Kong to ban seafood imports
This aerial view shows the treated water diluted by seawater flowing into a secondary water then into a connected undersea tunnel for an offshore discharge at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima, northern Japan, Thursday, Aug. 24, 2023, as its operator Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings TEPCO has begun releasing its first batch of treated radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean — a controversial step, but a milestone for Japan’s battle with the growing radioactive water stockpile.(Kyodo News via AP)
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Protests mount in South Korea over Japan’s plan to release treated Fukushima waste water
SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA - AUGUST 22: South Korean protesters scuffle with police during a rally against Japanese government's decision to release treated radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean, on August 22, 2023 in Seoul, South Korea. Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said that Japan will begin to discharge treated radioactive water from its crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant August 24, despite lingering safety concerns. (Photo by Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images) *** BESTPIX ***
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Japan to start releasing Fukushima nuclear plant wastewater to sea as early as Thursday
An aerial view shows the storage tanks for treated water at the tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Okuma town, Fukushima prefecture, Japan August 22, 2023, in this photo taken by Kyodo. Mandatory credit Kyodo via REUTERS
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France issues ‘red alert’ over heat wave in south
A man cools off in a public fountain in Colmar, eastern France, on August 21, 2023, as France experiences a late summer heatwave. In the "hottest" episode of summer 2023 in France Météo-France has warned of an "intense and lasting" heat wave with 50 out of 96 departments in mainland France placed on orange vigilance saying "we could reach temperature levels never before seen in France". The highest temperature ever recorded in France is 46 degrees in Verargues, in Herault, on June 28, 2019. (Photo by SEBASTIEN BOZON / AFP) (Photo by SEBASTIEN BOZON/AFP via Getty Images)
opinion
‘Putinheimer’ and the spectre of nuclear war
Paul Meyer
canada
Quebec government says it is open to studying whether to relaunch nuclear reactor
Pierre Fitzgibbon gives an update at the legislature in Quebec City on Thursday, April 6, 2023. Quebec Energy Minister Fitzgibbon says he agrees with the hydro utility's decision to study whether to reopen the province's only nuclear power generating station. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jacques Boissinot
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Quebec power utility studies possible reopening of Gentilly-2 nuclear reactor
Quebec's hydroelectric utility says it is studying whether to reopen the province's only nuclear power generating station. A Hydro-Québec logo is seen on their head office building in Montreal, Thursday, Feb. 26, 2015. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ryan Remiorz
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Putin profits off U.S. and European reliance on Russian nuclear fuel
FILE - Equipment frames the cooling towers of the Temelin nuclear power plant near the town of Tyn nad Vltavou, Czech Republic, on Thursday, June 25, 2015. The U.S. and its European allies are importing vast amounts of nuclear fuel and compounds from Russia, providing Moscow with hundreds of millions of dollars in badly needed revenue as it wages war on Ukraine. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek, File)
alberta
Alberta can learn from Ontario as it looks to develop nuclear energy
Charles DeLand
energy and resources
British regulator probes Cameco, Brookfield Renewable’s US$7.9-billion Westinghouse deal
FILE PHOTO: The logo of Westinghouse Electric Corp. is pictured at the World Nuclear Exhibition (WNE), the trade fair event for the global nuclear community in Villepinte near Paris, France, June 26, 2018. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier/File Photo
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Large U.S. solar project could be built on re-purposed land owned by Energy Department, agency says
FILE PHOTO: U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm delivers a speech ahead of a conversation with Daniel Yergin, the vice chairman of S&P Global, during the CERAWeek energy conference in Houston, Texas, U.S., March 8, 2023. REUTERS/Callaghan O'Hare/File Photo
opinion
Ford government’s nuclear push is a costly déjà vu for Ontario’s power sector
Ralph Torrie
opinion
Nuclear and the cost of clean power
The Editorial Board
canada
Nuclear threat from war in Ukraine prompts Ottawa to update plans for catastrophe
FILE PHOTO: A view shows the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant outside Enerhodar in the Zaporizhzhia region, Russian-controlled Ukraine, June 15, 2023. REUTERS/Alexander Ermochenko/File Photo/File Photo
analysis
Ontario’s Darlington nuclear station is on time, on budget and learning from past mistakes
A view of Darlington Nuclear Generating Station in Courtice Ontario on May 23, 2023. OPG staff gave The Globe and Mail a tour of the ongoing project to refurbish the four nuclear reactors at Canada’s second-largest nuclear station. Carlos Osorio for The Globe and Mail
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Inside the control room overseeing refurbishment of four of Ontario's nuclear reactors
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Nuclear power is a key part of a green future
The Editorial Board
canada
Ontario opens door to new wind, solar power projects as electrical demand to grow
Wind turbines at the White Pine Wind project can be seen near a farm in Milford, Ont., on Thursday July 12, 2018. Ontario's governing Progressive Conservatives said this week that one of their first priorities during the legislature's summer sitting would be to cancel the contract for the White Pines Project in Prince Edward County. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Lars Hagberg