Is the time right for nuclear energy?

There are no easy answers. But we have also reached the time when we must decide how to manage the trade-offs among all our imperfect energy sources.

The federal government produced an SMR roadmap in 2018, which Natural Resources Minister Seamus O’Regan, pictured at the Canadian Nuclear Association's annual conference in Ottawa on Feb. 27, 2020, has committed to implementing.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY MARLA ORENSTEIN

December 9, 2020

Right now, there is both a problem and an opportunity that nuclear energy—particularly in the form of small modular reactors—may be ready to step in and fill. The COVID-19 lockdowns of 2020 highlighted just how difficult it is going to be to reach our goals for decreasing greenhouse gas (GHG) e...

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