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Canada

In an Ontario town split over a nuclear dump site, the fallout is over how they’ll vote on the future

A citizen’s group opposed to burying Canada’s stockpile of spent nuclear fuel half a kilometre below a southwestern Ontario farm town is…

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Tech

NWMO reaffirms safety of Canada’s 1st nuclear waste repository but there’s still heavy pushback

The body tasked with selecting the future storage site for Canada’s nuclear waste has reaffirmed its confidence in the project’s safety,…

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Tech

Ontario nuclear plant to produce material for life-saving cancer treatment

Ontario will announce plans Thursday to produce a nuclear medical isotope that forms the essential component in a life-saving treatment…

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Politics

Ottawa pledging $50M for Bruce Power nuclear plant expansion

The federal government is spending $50 million on preliminary work for an expansion of the Bruce Power nuclear plant — Ottawa’s…

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Canada

Doug Ford government to refurbish Pickering nuclear plant as demand for electricity grows

The Ontario government announced Tuesday that it plans to refurbish the half-century old Pickering nuclear generating station, keeping the plant…

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Tech

Ignace, Ont., group was in Finland to tour world’s 1st long-term nuclear waste repository at NWMO’s expense

After travelling across the Atlantic Ocean and taking an elevator hundreds of metres underground, it’s hard for Jodie Defeo to…

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Tech

Putin signs bill revoking Russian ratification of nuclear test ban treaty

President Vladimir Putin on Thursday signed off on a law revoking Russia’s ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty,…

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Canada

Some Amherstburg residents sound off as town decommissions its nuclear sirens

For some residents in Amherstburg, the Fermi 2 nuclear power plant is almost in their backyard, right across the water…

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Tech

What you won’t learn about in Oppenheimer: the potential effects of a nuclear winter

Our planet is changing. So is our journalism. This weekly newsletter is part of a CBC News initiative entitled “Our…

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Tech

Hundreds protest in Seoul against Japan’s plans to discharge treated wastewater from the Fukushima nuclear power plant

Hundreds of people marched in Seoul on Saturday to demand Japan scrap plans to discharge treated wastewater from the damaged…

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