Panel: More Nuclear in Canada’s Energy Future?

October 10, 2024

  • 7:00 PM

CEDAR

 

8 PM (ATLANTIC)
Zoom
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Organized by York University’s Sustainable Energy Initiative and co-hosted by CEDAR. Featuring: M.V. Ramana, University of British Columbia; Susan O’Donnell & Emma Fackenthall, St. Thomas University; Laura Tanguay, York University; and Mark Winfield, York University. Panel chair: Janice Harvey, St. Thomas University.

 

 

• Small Modular Reactors: Nuclear Fantasies for the Interregnum
M.V. Ramana, Professor and Simons Chair in Disarmament, Global and Human Security, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, University of British Columbia; Author, Nuclear is not the Solution (Verso Book 2024).

• Challenging Corporate Media Discourse on Nuclear Power
Susan O’Donnell, Primary Investigator, and Emma Fackenthall, Research Assistant, the CEDAR project (Contesting Energy Discourses through Action Research), St. Thomas University.

 

• No Depth in Shallow Promises: Unfolding the green narrative of nuclear into the burden of wastes
Laura Tanguay, Candidate, Ph.D. Program in Environmental Studies, Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change, York University.

 

• Nuclear Energy in Canada: Has a dying industry found new life?
Mark Winfield, Professor and Sustainable Energy Initiative Co-Chair, Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change, York University; Co-editor Sustainable Energy Transitions in Canada (UBC Press 2023).

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