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 which is behind a paywall but it can be found here https://www.hilltimes.com/story/2024/10/07/canadas-false-solution-for-used-nuclear-fuel-waste/436907/ by subscribers to the paper.  Its headline was “Canada’s false ‘solution’ for used…

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 and future presidents of CNS.   I have also recently started copying them to relevant division chairs.  I add in my thoughts on whether we…

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 with more than one degree.  There is also a good chance that you are middle or late middle aged, comfortably wealthy and probably male.   This…