Welcome to the Core Business Blog, the Canadian Nuclear Society’s new approach to letting you know about the issues facing the Canadian nuclear industry. Nuclear power’s potential role in achieving net zero has been in the news a lot recently and that discussion will be ongoing. Here in Canada, some major changes could be taking…

Regularly we see anti nuclear campaigners listing incidents where there has been contamination implying that this automatically leads to environmental harm.  But they rarely calibrate the issue or identify what the harm might be.  Chernobyl, because it had no containment, is by far the worst example of contamination spread arising from an incident.  But at the end of the…

Ah Hominem attacks what they look like, how you get them, and what to do about them When you have been in bat on social media providing real facts about nuclear power you come to see that nearly all the anti’s arguments are fallacious ones.  They will move goal posts, cherry pick, and launch strawmen,…

The question “is nuclear safe” comes up regularly in discussions.  It’s a loaded question that is much harder to answer than it may first appear.  Say yeah….it is safe….. and you set yourself up to be proved wrong with references to Chernobyl and Fukushima.  But if you say anything that accepts that it is not…