Algonquin Nations Oppose New Nuclear Dump Site at Chalk River

 ABOVE: After fuel bundles ‘cool’, OPG uses dry storage containers made of concrete and steel that are designed to last for more than 50 years. (PHOTO: OPG) Algonquin First Nations are calling on the Federal Government and Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL) to shelve a planned nuclear waste facility in Chalk

Canadian Nuclear Power: different from the others

 Most of the public discussion and debate in Canada on the subject of nuclear power generation contributes little to our understanding. The two sides rarely engage in real interaction, and most published discourse is flaccid, incoherent and largely fact-free. On the one hand, while most of the public utterances from

Science and politics: always a stormy marriage

 The global Covid-19 pandemic seems an all-consuming issue these days, but it is by no means the first of a burgeoning new class of public policy issues. In trying to make sense out of the important issues public policy issues today, one must accommodate two important new facts of life.