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Category Archives: Nuclear Safety
A 2nd Chernobyl
(August 19, 2022) Who knows where the fallout from Zaporizhzhia, a nuclear power complex 50 percent larger than Chernobyl, might land?
Posted in Energy Probe News, Nuclear Power, Nuclear Safety
Tagged Chernobyl, nuclear, Russia, Ukraine, Zaporizhzhia
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Peskotomuhkati Chief denounces Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission’s public hearing process as a ‘feel good exercise’
(June 9, 2022) Indigenous sovereignty, sustainable non-nuclear futures, and critical perspectives lost in the fray.
Shut the Pickering reactors down
Tonight! March 27, 8:30 pm @Green_Beanery – stop by for our new Grounds for Thought discussion. Join Shawn-Patrick Stensil of Greenpeace as he focuses on the Pickering problem and why he wants nuclear power out of Ontario’s energy mix. Continue reading
Listen to Energy Probe on Green Majority
(August 21, 2012) Energy Probe’s Director of Research, Norman Rubin, joined a roundtable on nuclear energy in Canada hosted by the environmental news radio program ‘Green Majority’ (CIUT FM 89.5), which you can listen to in full at the link supplied. Continue reading
Lawrence Solomon: Death of a maverick
(June 7, 2011) Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, winner of a 1977 Nobel prize in medicine and a lifelong fighter against personal and professional prejudice in science, died last week at age 89. Continue reading
Podcast: Lawrence Solomon on radiation in Japan
(April 1, 2011) Lawrence Solomon joins Financial Post reporters Eric Lam and John Shmuel for the FP Big Picture podcast. Continue reading
Posted in Hormesis, Nuclear Power, Nuclear Safety, Radiation
Tagged Fukushima, Hormesis, Japan, nuclear, Radiation
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Lawrence Solomon: Avert Chernobyl-style hysteria in Japan
(March 25, 2011) Energy Probe executive director Lawrence Solomon argues that the biggest tragedy of Chernobyl was the reaction, rather than the meltdown itself. The lesson for Japan is that panicking will only make things worse for those affected by the Fukushima meltdown. Continue reading
Posted in Hormesis, Nuclear Power, Nuclear Safety, Radiation
Tagged Chernobyl, fallout, Fukushima, Hormesis, Japan, nuclear meltdown, Radiation
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If not nuclear, then what?
(March 17, 2011) When even experts disagree about how safe nuclear reactors are, or ought to be, what do we make of nuclear? The Globe and Mail’s Margaret Wente looks at the pros and cons of nuclear energy and finds concern in the less obvious. Continue reading
Posted in Energy Probe News, Nuclear Power, Nuclear Safety
Tagged Chernobyl, Fukushima, Japan earthquake, meltdown, nuclear energy, Radiation, tsunami
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Nuclear concern: worldwide reaction to Japan crisis
(March 16, 2011) Energy Probe’s Norm Rubin weighs in on the developing crisis at Japan’s Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant. Continue reading
Posted in Energy Probe News, Nuclear Safety
Tagged Chernobyl, Fukushima, Japan earthquake, meltdown, nuclear energy, Radiation, tsunami
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Workers pulled from nuclear plant as radiation spikes
(March 15, 2011) CTV News reports on the latest setback at the stricken Fukushima Dai-Ichi plant. Energy Probe’s director of nuclear research Norm Rubin says the 40-year-old plant was only designed to withstand a quake of 6.5 magnitude. Continue reading
Posted in Energy Probe News, Nuclear Safety
Tagged Chernobyl, Fukushima, Japan earthquake, meltdown, nuclear energy, Radiation, tsunami
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