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Feb
2025
Among the many misconceptions circulating, the notion that “cheap” wind and solar energy will reduce electricity bills, is particularly dangerous. People are highly sensitive to cost issues, and if anything […]
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Jan
2025
A while ago I pointed out that we should never be using confidence in engineering as our primary argument in supporting technology because if we did somone would simply raise […]
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Jan
2025
I have written before about implied bias. It is an issue that concerns me a lot. Implied bias is in many ways worse that overt bias because its insidious and […]
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Jan
2025
Just before Christmas the Hill Times (a highly respected newspaper amongst influencers in politics) published an article aby Erika Simpson that repeated a lot of misinformation circulating about the DGR. […]
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Dec
2024
The Nuclear Waste Management Organization announced in November that it has selected Wabigoon Lake Ojibway Nation (WLON) and the Township of Ignace as the host communities for Canada’s deep geological […]
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Dec
2024
Not long ago the Green Party of Ontario passed a resolution stating that they would support the continued use of nuclear power. They intended to go further and support an […]
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Dec
2024
In the first part of this trilogy I suggested that nuclear industry groupthink could be leading our communications to feed the fears we mean to allay as they rely on […]
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Nov
2024
In a previous blog, I wrote about some communications issues that the industry might be getting wrong, pointing out how groupthink could cause us to believe we are soothing concerns, […]
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Oct
2024
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 […]
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Oct
2024
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 […]
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