The Canadian Nuclear Society is a learned society and one part of its mandate is to provide factual information on nuclear issues to the public. We avoid expressing opinions and lobbying to focus primarily on the science and engineering. More recently we have set up the core business blog. This has a bit more latitude to enable…

Erika Simpson, a professor of international politics at Western University and frequent author of anti-nuclear articles had an opinion piece published in the Hill Times a few days ago. https://www.hilltimes.com/story/2023/07/06/when-planning-nuclear-waste-sites-in-canada-consider-the-potential-nuclear-crisis-in-ukraine/392019/ It’s behind a paywall and I can’t reproduce it here, but I will try to address the issues that she raises by quoting the relevant pieces. …

Canada has always been a leader in the field of medical isotopes.   We were the first country to successfully demonstrate the use of large radiotherapy sources to treat cancer.  Our research reactors produced many of the isotopes that were used in the early research into nuclear medicine, and we went on to become world…