Blast from the Past: The Great Debate – Edwards vs Teller – 1974
Good afternoon: In a recent TV documentary on plans to bury all of Canada’s high level nuclear waste in the neighbourhood of some small community in Ontario, the journalist Christopher Read of the Aboriginal People’s Television Network (APTN) inserted a clip from an old televised debate between Gordon Edwards and Edward Teller. A few people...
Fri Nov 26, APTN Investigates, 7pm EDT: Update on NWMO’s Search for a DGR for High-Level Nuclear Waste
To all Nuclear Waste Watchers: Christopher Read, TV journalist with APTN, has just completed a half-hour documentary on NWMO’s plans for a permanent underground nuclear waste dump for all of Canada’s HLW.It will include a portion of an interview with me, done from my dining room. It will be broadcast this Friday, November 26, on...
Scientists for Future Germany : “Nuclear energy not a technology to solve climate crisis” – ENGLISH Executive Summary
Dear Friends: Thanks to Gunter Wippel, our very good friend in Germany, for this information.I have the complete German report in pdf form if anyone wants me to send it, or you can downlaod it form the link: https://zenodo.org/record/5573719 Gordon Edwards. ————————— ENGLISH: In light of the accelerating climate crisis, nuclear energy and its place in the...
Gordon Edwards on the entire nuclear fuel chain from uranium mining to reactors and bombs
Dear Friends and Colleagues: On October 19, 2021, I gave a webinar entitled “Uranium – Premises, Promises and Predicaments”that dealt with a number of key questions related to uranium and nuclear energy: • To what extent can new nuclear reactors make an important contribution in fighting climate change?• Are the new reactors currently being proposed...
Waste Isolation Pilot Project
Hello folks. WIPP = Waste Isolation Pilot Project, a deep undreground repository for transuranic-contaminated wastes (TRU wastes). Transuranic elements are human-made radioactive materials such as plutonium, americium, neptunium, and curium, all of tnem created inside nuclear reactors when uranium atoms absorb one or more neutrons without splitting, thereby becoming heavier than uranium or “transuranic”. These...
Small Modular Nuclear Reactors: New technology comes nowhere close to solving the problem of nuclear waste
Background: It is very refreshing to see an article that points out the fundamental hypocrisy of industrial and governmental promoters in wanting to call this technology “clean” when in fact it produces the deadliest waste and the most insidious poisons of any industry that has ever been allowed to operate. A few caveats however: (1) Perhaps the most...
Correction: The Passamaquody and the Wolastoq are neighbours with independent leadership
Correction: I have corrected my mistaken description of the relationship between the Passamaquoddy First Nation (Peskotomuhkati First Nation) and the Wolastoq Grand Council (“people of the beautiful river” – a river called the St John River by most non-Indigenous people of New Brunswick, but originally known as “Wolastoq”). The error in my previous email was...
Wolastoq Grand Council Resolution on Nuclear Energy and Nuclear Waste (Full Text)
Friends across the lands, The Wolastoq Grand Council signed a Resolution on nuclear energy and nuclear waste on traditional Wolastoq territory. They asked for it to be published, and are asking all of us to spread it far and wide. Susan O’Donnell, Fredericton NB. The Indian Point Safe Energy Coalition stands in solidarity with the...
Questions and Answers about Irradiated Nuclear Fuel in Canada
Questions and Answers about Irradiated Nuclear Fuel in Canada A new document by Gordon Edwards on issues surrounding the handling of Irradiated Nuclear Fuel in Canada is now available on-line: see http://www.ccnr.org/Q&A_sbclc_2021.pdf The document is based on Q&A following a presentation by Gordon to the South Bruce NWMO Citizens’ Liaison Committee (CLC) on November 5, 2020, entitled “Nuclear Fuel...
Government’s early holiday gift to the nuclear industry “naughty, not nice”
Public interest groups across Canada reject federal funding of small modular nuclear reactors OTTAWA, December 17, 2020 – Public interest groups across Canada are criticizing the federal government for funding development of prototype small modular nuclear reactors (SMR) with the SMR action plan that is expected to be announced tomorrow. [Friday, December 17] “Not a penny should go...
A panel of experts discuss Small Modular Reactors or Small Mythical Reactors as Paul Gunter of Beyond Nuclear has labeled them.
=================== On Nov 6, 2020, at 12:47 PM, Paul Gunter <paul@beyondnuclear.org> wrote: Here is a link to the Beyond Nuclear Small Modular Reactor webinar and our panelists’ powerpoints. http://www.beyondnuclear.org/home/2020/10/23/smr-webinar-presentations-and-video.html Paul =================== 1. Oral interventions by Gordon Edwards during the webinar: “Beyond Nuclear” webinar, October 21, 2020 Oral comments by Gordon Edwards [ccnr@web.ca] www.ccnr.org/SMR_webinar_GE_comments_2020.pdf One of...
(Webinar) Small Modular Nuclear Reactors: Not Clean, Not Small, Not Green, Not Affordable
On March 13, 2020, a presentation by Dr. Gordon Edwards scheduled for a public meeting in Fredericton, New Brunswick, was cancelled because of Covid-19. The title of the talk was to be:“Small Modular Nuclear Reactors – Not Clean, Not Small, Not Green, Not Affordable” Instead, Dr. Edwards gave a webinar by zoom. Here is a...
