Finland will start loading its final nuclear waste repository in 2025 or early 2026. Article link in reply. I look forward to seeing the false notion that there is no technical solution for the nuclear waste "problem" be put to bed. It was never a technological problem. It's

On this day, August 29 2007, former 🇫🇷 French Prime Minister Pierre Messmer died. He of the famous "Messmer Plan" that in 1974 announced the construction of 13 large publicly-owned ⚛️nuclear reactors that would be the beginning of one of the world's largest & fastest

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Latest Ontario wind turbine, grid-tied #solar and Ontario Power Gen #Pickering2075 #nuclear performance graphs for the 2-week period ending August 27th, 2024.

Looks like AtkinsRéalis is getting serious about exporting 🇨🇦Canadian publicly-designed CANDU⚛️ reactors once again!

Finnish waste management company Posiva Oy announced it has begun a trial run of placing disposal cannisters in the Onkalo used #nuclear fuel repository. No actual nuclear fuel is being used in the trial run tinyurl.com/ywfpumr2

The start-up of the Northvolt battery cell megafactory in Montreal will be delayed. It was “presented by the Legault government as the most important private industrial project in the history of the province – valued at $7B and financed by Quebec & Ottawa” lapresse.ca/affaires/entre…

When I see pretty non-political Americans getting concerned about this in the energy space, it makes me think perhaps we should be paying more attention to it as Canadians 🤔

It may only be Week 1, but we already have the best College GameDay sign of the year.

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On this day in #Canadian #nuclear #history: - in 1966 Ontario Power Gen Pickering A2 construction started - in 1966 Hydro-Québec Gentilly-1 construction started - in 1972 Bruce Power NGS A4 construction started - in 1976 Ontario Power Gen Pickering B8 construction started - in 1977 Bruce Power NGS A1 and A2

People sometimes ask me why I say that installing more weather dependent renewables gets harder beyond a certain penetration. And why that penetration is no higher than ~40%. Well, because this sort of stuff happens even before you reach 40%.

When Europeans first began to arrive at Niagara Falls, the place they stood for the best vantage point was Table Rock. That rock is long gone, mostly collapsed while a carriage sat on it in 1850. This is the story of the long-gone Table Rock! 🧵1/6

Looks like 🇪🇺Europe will soon have a second ⚛️⚡️EPR on the grid. Flamanville 3 in 🇫🇷France started low-power nuclear fission reaction earlier today and is expected to be grid-connected by end of year. Flamanville 3 is publicly-owned via EDF, the 100% French state-owned

A recent Ontario news release was titled: "Province Launches Largest Competitive Energy Procurement in Ontario History" Coming from a rookie Energy Minister that brought back visions of George Smitherman's Korean syndicate deal ending professional sytem planning, but ...

This is what a successful nuclear embarkation looks like. Start at scale: 1 design 1 site 4 reactors 5.6 GW.

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As the rest of the world talks in circles of what to do with nuclear "waste," Finland says, "hold my beer" 🍻 ans.org/news/article-6…

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For many 90s kids, the PSAs of Concerned Children's Advertisers are burned deep into our brains. They produced over 30 segments, including Don't You Put It In Your Mouth, The House Hippo and the scary drug dealer one in Hip Choice. Let's learn more! 🧵1/7