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Dec
2024
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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Dec
2024
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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Dec
2024
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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Nov
2024
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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Oct
2024
A few weeks ago The Hill Times published an Op-Ed by William Leiss an emeritus professor at Queen’s University, where his specialism was risk communication. I can’t reproduce the article […]
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Oct
2024
Every day I do a search for articles about nuclear in the media and forward the ones that are not in the CNA clippings to the president and the past […]
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Oct
2024
Some communications things we may be getting wrong. If you are reading this there is a good chance that you are university educated, likely in a technical discipline and possibly […]
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Apr
2024
To date most of our communications have been responsive and focused on correcting specific bits of misinformation. But there are wider issues where organizations are alluding to things that are […]
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Apr
2024
The nuclear industry has suffered badly from words being used to trick people into forming unhelpful images in their minds. Sometimes it happens by accident as the author fails to […]
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Feb
2024
In its February issue The Walleye, a monthly arts magazine for the people of Thunder Bay, published the attached article by a couple of anti NWMO campaigners. http://www.cns-snc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Lloyd-February-2024.pdf We have […]
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