23

Apr

2025

Deep Geologic Repositories (DGRs)?  Distressed purchase or Jewel in the Nuclear Crown

Nuclear industries around the world have struggled to explain and win support for the repository concept.  It is likely that some of the problem is just that NIMBYs employ misunderstandings […]

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5

Feb

2025

An article by the Breakthrough Institute

This is a Rorschach Test – The Breakthrough Journal This is one of those rare occasions where I have nothing to add other than that this should be a compulsory […]

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4

Feb

2025

How do we quickly and succinctly explain why wind and solar are not cheap?

Among the many misconceptions circulating, the notion that “cheap” wind and solar energy will reduce electricity bills, is particularly dangerous. People are highly sensitive to cost issues, and if anything […]

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20

Jan

2025

The Titanic Fallacy

A while ago I pointed out that we should never be using confidence in engineering as our primary argument in supporting technology because if we did somone would simply raise […]

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15

Jan

2025

More on implied bias and some suggestions for how you can help

I have written before about implied bias.  It is an issue that concerns me a lot.  Implied bias is in many ways worse that overt bias because its insidious and […]

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15

Jan

2025

How can you be “downstream” of something that is below you and where there is no “Stream”

Just before Christmas the Hill Times (a highly respected newspaper amongst influencers in politics) published an article aby Erika Simpson that repeated a lot of misinformation circulating about the DGR. […]

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19

Dec

2024

Can Used Nuclear Fuel be Transported Safely?

The Nuclear Waste Management Organization announced in November that it has selected Wabigoon Lake Ojibway Nation (WLON) and the Township of Ignace as the host communities for Canada’s deep geological […]

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10

Dec

2024

Nuclear Power, now it’s Green as well as Clean

Not long ago the Green Party of Ontario passed a resolution stating that they would support the continued use of nuclear power. They intended to go further and support an […]

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4

Dec

2024

An alternative approach to nuclear communications

In the first part of this trilogy I suggested that nuclear industry groupthink could be leading our communications to feed the fears we mean to allay as they rely on […]

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22

Nov

2024

Why we might be getting some of our communications wrong

In a previous blog, I wrote about some communications issues that the industry might be getting wrong, pointing out how groupthink could cause us to believe we are soothing concerns, […]

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