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Oct
2024
Ian Wigginton
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
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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Oct
2024
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 […]
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Apr
2024
To date most of our communications have been responsive and focused on correcting specific bits of misinformation. But there are wider issues where organizations are alluding to things that are […]
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Apr
2024
The nuclear industry has suffered badly from words being used to trick people into forming unhelpful images in their minds. Sometimes it happens by accident as the author fails to […]
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Feb
2024
In its February issue The Walleye, a monthly arts magazine for the people of Thunder Bay, published the attached article by a couple of anti NWMO campaigners. http://www.cns-snc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Lloyd-February-2024.pdf We have […]
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Feb
2024
Using the term renewable and notably including hydro has often been used to suggest that wind and solar based grids are possible. But the defining feature of wind and solar […]
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Jan
2024
Some years back I wrote an essay for LinkedIn entitled “What if I am wrong, What if they are wrong”, in which I considered the outcome of two different scenarios. […]
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Dec
2023
A while ago the National Observer published “Bad guys and bombs: The nuclear risks of small modular reactors” (https://www.nationalobserver.com/2023/11/03/news/bad-guys-bombs-nuclear-risks-small-modular-reactors). It follows an earlier article they produced in September about an […]
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Dec
2023
One of the problems that the nuclear industry has always had is that where communications are concerned it has to play the game on a very slanted playing field. Anti-nuclear […]
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