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  • Who cares if SMRs make more or less, or different used fuel than large reactors, none of its a problem anyway.

    Sometime ago CNS members may have seen articles about the publication of the report on wastes from Small Modular Reactors. Nuclear waste from small modular reactors | PNAS.   As we are scientists and engineers we may have focused on the technical issues and some of the assumptions made in the report that we would argue…


  • Hardened Facilities?

    What can we say about Used Fuel storage in Canada in the light of the Ontario Clean Air Alliance’s claims that facilities should be hardened? Recently an anti-nuclear lobbying group made the following announcement. You may be asked about it, so we have done a bit of research to help you answer those questions. https://www.cleanairalliance.org/we-need-a-safer-interim-storage-solution-for-ontarios-nuclear-wastes/…