Better to sell the uranium to those with an existing nuclear industry.
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BTW Brian there has been a nuclear reactor in a neighborhood near MacMaster University since the 50s.
https://dailynews.mcmaster.ca/articles/ ... r-reactor/
You can walk across the reactor and watch the reaction safely.
We have a very safe nuclear industry tho our mining is not so well governed.
Fortunately our nuclear facilities were built long ago at much reduced prices and are due for upgrades and refurbishment. Our reactor design should have done better internationally but never did.
It will run thorium which of interest to India which has lots.
Still a full scale nuclear plant is expensive....better Ontario buys hydro power from Quebec which can sell at 2 cents per KWH on a wholesale basis.
People in Ontario are still pissed about overly generous feed in tariffs from when the renewable industry was kicking off.
Same as ours in Aus where we get 44 cents feed in and that can be up to $170 a quarter from our aging panels.
Keeps our power bills way down...at most $400 a quarter before the rebate. That's due to run out next year and we have to decide to if we want a bigger array at a lower feedin.
AC use is very low, we have no heating, my vehicle gets 350 km from 13 liters of fuel and my next one will be electric altho with the little driving we do it is hardly worthwhile.
Our long distance flying days are over tho we do fly locally and New Zealand. We try and fly 787s as they are more fuel efficient per passenger mile than a Prius with 4 passengers.
Partner eats close to zero meat and I eat much less than in the past and we try to avoid foods with long distance shipping...I switched my Brit biscuits to Australian version
We have always voted for middle left parties with decent environmental programs and that have a reasonable chance of getting in power. ( channelling Machiavelli).
In Aus Jude votes Labour.The Liberal Party is the longest-serving and oldest active federal political party in the country, and has dominated federal politics of Canada for much of its history, holding power for almost 70 years of the 20th century.
All of them could do more but they have to be in power to move the agenda forward.
In your court Brian...
BTW your UCS article is pretty slanted anti-nuclear not just a correcting of misconceptions which there are lots of out there.
It is hyperbolic and fear mongering bringing up Fukishima and Chernobyl which are outliers that do not represent nuclear risks ...forgetting that 10% of the worlds power is safely nuclear and some like France 70 percent....nary a mention of those realities nor the overwhelming safety record of nuclear power.
