Nuclear

Two days after the U.S. midterm elections, Wall Street was rocked by investors dumping shares worth US$3.2 trillion in a single trading session—the first public signal that something might be fundamentally wrong with the business models of America’s high-tech titans. A Red Wave of debt appears to be coming for...

The federal major projects agenda takes a starring role, electrification is solidified as the centrepiece of federal decarbonization goals, and heat pumps and building retrofits show up as part of a wider approach to affordability in a federal budget that combines past announcements and new funding to hammer away at...

50 years ago on Oct. 1, an analysis in the journal Foreign Affairs mapped out a “soft” energy path that would have drastically reduced energy demand, shifted economies off fossil and nuclear energy, handed households and communities more control over their energy future—and concluded in 2025, if it had been...

In early September, the organization behind Canada's push for small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs) quietly signalled their demise, researcher and author Susan O'Donnell writes in analysis for The Energy Mix.

Prime Minister Mark Carney's government tabled a sweeping bill Monday meant to fast-track approvals for major projects, cut their review times, and create zones of "national interest" to pre-approve certain types of projects.

Hot water and low river levels have hampered nuclear power in Europe this summer, forcing a reckoning over plant preparedness.

With as many as 250 of the world’s top investors converging on Toronto next week for Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Canada Investment Summit, news reports say pipelines, nuclear plants, railways, AI data centres, and more will be among the 167 domestic projects on offer.

With Nova Scotia getting closer to inviting bids for Canada’s first offshore wind farms, a new poll says nearly three-quarters of Nova Scotians “hold a positive impression of offshore wind energy” and up to a two-thirds majority back the Wind West project—with some concerns still to be addressed.

Emails show that as wildfire approached the site of one of the worst nuclear meltdowns in U.S. history, state and local officials had to move quickly to assess how safe the air was amid radiation concerns.

A series of four brutal heat waves so far this summer has brought down water levels in two of Europe’s mightiest rivers, impeding coal and diesel resupply in Germany, shutting down nuclear reactors in Hungary and Romania, and prompting Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Magyar to declare an imminent crisis amid...

Ontario First Nations leadership declared an historic breakthrough and nuclear critics warned of risks ahead Tuesday after Williams Treaties First Nations (WTFN) and the Ontario and federal governments announced a roughly $715-million investment in small modular reactor (SMR) development at the Darlington nuclear station.

Almost a year after the federal government's Bill C-5 was rushed through Parliament, Ottawa is finally looking to use its new powers to expedite projects deemed to be in the national interest.

Up to 10 new nuclear reactors by 2041, more Candu reactor sales to other countries, and a doubling in uranium exports by 2035 are key elements of the “new civilian nuclear renaissance” the federal government hopes to ring in with a new nuclear energy strategy released Monday by Energy and...

"Those guidelines and regulations belong to the people of Canada, not to any party. Any party that overrides those rules and regulations, destroys some of the wealth of Canada..."

Federal impact assessment reviews for two Ontario nuclear projects risk serving as little more than procedural approvals, a Toronto environmental studies professor says, as they move through the process without first identifying the reactor types to be built.