Post #4337232

2026-08-02 18:45 UTC

Ontario cabinet minister Stephen Lecce (who has made bad education decisions too!) is who decided to buy new nuclear reactors for Ontario that rely on foreign fabrication and foreign-enriched fuel - leaving 🇨🇦 open to the geopolitical whims of other nations including the U.S.. i thought the entire point of the CANDU reactor design was to avoid this bullshit! https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/canada-nuclear-supply-chain-smr-darlington-uranium-enrichment-9.7289297 #EnergyPolicy #Nuclear #OnPoli

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@zazzoo@mstdn.ca 2026-08-02 18:48

@adub@beige.party This last year and half has almost been as if all this "elbows up" was actually "bait and switch."

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@deborahh@cosocial.ca 2026-08-03 15:51

"Nuclear power is a very expensive way to generate electricity & the small modular reactor is even more expensive." "designer … says smaller reactors can overcome some of that cost disadvantage because they require less machinery …: water circulates through the reactor w/o powered pumps, emergency cooling functions use gravity & natural circulation … However … Darlington is the design's first deployment, [so] those projected savings haven't yet been seen in a commercially operating unit." 😡

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@controlc@mstdn.ca 2026-08-03 19:06

@adub@beige.party Meanwhile Ontario is surrounded by Great Lakes and James Bay, and ne're an offshore windmill to be found.

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