Phasing Out Nuclear Power in Canada
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Phasing Out Nuclear Power in Canada – Toward Sustainable Electricity Futures
Five key elements of a sustainable energy transition were combined in different ways to produce a scenario for the electricity systems in Ontario, Québec, and New Brunswick in which all central coal, oil, and nuclear power plants would be phased out by 2020. A report by Ralph Torrie and Richard Parfett, July 2003 (PDF, 2 MB) |
Phasing Out Nuclear Power in Canada – Toward Sustainable Electricity Futures (Executive Summary)
Executvue Summary of the report by Ralph Torrie and Richard Parfett, July 2003 (PDF, 1.7 MB) |
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Nuclear Power and Climate Change
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Nuclear Power is not a 'Solution' to Climate Change
CNP Fact Sheet (PDF format - 82K) |
Nuclear Reactors and Climate Change
(Sierra Club of Canada Backgrounder) |
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Renewable Energy
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Canada's Green Energy Future
(PDF format - 478K) |
CNP Energy Options
factsheet |
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Plutonium
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Weapons Plutonium Fuel (MOX)
CNP Backgrounder |
CNP September 2000 submission to Transport Canada
regarding the AECL 'Emergency Response Assistance Plan (ERAP) for MOX Fuel Shipment from Moscow to Chalk River, Ontario' |
Summary Legal Opinion regarding the transport of MOX by air in January 2000
CELA (Canadian Environmental Law Association) |
Transport of Weapons Plutonium Fuel (MOX) by Air
A compilation of statements from Transport Canada, the Atomic Energy Control Board, the U.S. Department of Energy and others. |
MOX plutonium and air transport
Excerpts from U.S. DoE and AECL documents |
CNP's 2001 Action Alert
on the transport of U.S. and Russian plutonium fuel into Canada.
Click here to view a map of communities through which weapons plutonium fuel could travel, based on information released by the Canadian government in September 1999. |
Risky Business
Canada and the Plutonium Fuel Initiative |
Cold War Leftovers
Canada and Nuclear Weapons Waste |
Canada's Nuclear Policy and Proliferation Risks
Submission to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade (February 1998) |
The MOX Experience: The Disposition of Excess Russian and U.S. Weapons Plutonium In Canada
July 1997, by Franklyn Griffiths (CCNR web site) |
Transportation routes for U.S. weapons plutonium fuel (to the Canadian border)
as identified by the U.S. Department of Energy in 1997 |
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Nuclear Subsidies
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Canadian Nuclear Subsidies: Fifty Years of Futile Funding
January 2003 (PDF format - 320K) |
Canadian Nuclear Subsidies: Fifty Years of Futile Funding
January 2003 - Executive Summary |
Financial Meltdown: Federal Nuclear Subsidies to AECL
November 2000 (PDF format - 346K) |
Federal Nuclear Subsidies - Time to Call a Halt
Executive Summary |
Nuclear Fusion Subsidies
In 2004, Canada effectively withdrew its bid to build the $19 billion (CDN) ITER fusion reactor at the Darlington nuclear station in Clarington, Ontario. A nuclear industry group had been promoting construction of ITER (the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor) and asking the federal government for public subsidies. There are significant environmental and cost concerns associated with nuclear fusion. The Sierra Club of Canada established a web site, www.iter.ca, to increase public awareness of the issue. |
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CANDU Exports
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Exporting Disaster
(April 2001, PDF format - 95K) |
Financing Disaster - How the G8 Fund the Global Proliferation of Nuclear Technology
Full Report (PDF format - 1.4 mb) |
Financing Disaster - How the G8 Fund the Global Proliferation of Nuclear Technology
Executive Summary and section on Canada (PDF format - 470K) |
The G8 and the Nuclear Industry
The nuclear weapons and energy programmes of G8 countries make up the majority of the world’s nuclear technology. (June 2002) |
Comments by non-government organizations (NGOs) on the AECL Cernavoda 2 reactor
'Environmental Assessment Summary' (January 2002, PDF format - 660K) |
Nuclear Threat in the Eastern Mediterranean: The Case Against Turkey’s Akkuyu Nuclear Plant
(June 2000, full text and executive summary. Full text in Acrobat PDF format) |
The CANDU Syndrome - Executive Summary
(CANDU reactor exports and Turkey) |
The CANDU Syndrome - Full Text
(link to CCNR web site) |
Nuclear weapons proliferation and Turkey
Nuclear Awareness Project (also see Nuclear Awareness Project March 2000 media release on CANDU reactors and Turkey) |
| Completing the Cernavoda-2 Reactor (Romania): A Bad Risk for Canada |
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High Level Nuclear Waste
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Nuclear Fuel Waste Act
The federal government’s Nuclear Fuel Waste Act (NFWA) came into force on November 15, 2002, signalling the start of a new era in nuclear fuel waste “management”, and potentially the kick start of the search for a disposal site for a million bundles of highly radioactive nuclear fuel waste. One of CNP’s supporting groups, NorthWatch, has put together a newsletter outlying various aspects of the Act (PDF format - 150K). Also check out Nuclear Waste Watch for more information. |
High-level nuclear waste
CNP factsheet |
CNP brief to the federal government on nuclear fuel waste
(February 1999) |
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Background Documents
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| Uranium |
| Research |
| Plutonium |
Depleted Uranium
(SCC web page) |
| Radioactive Waste |
| Simplified diagram of how electricity is generated by a nuclear reactor |
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