Why the North needs telecom before it gets nuclear

Northern Canada depends almost entirely on a handful of satellite providers. Satellites are vulnerable to jamming, cyberattacks, congestion, and foreign interference.
Modern Small Modular Reactors depend on continuous, secure, high-assurance data links, but the telecommunications systems in the North are not built for that level of responsibility, writes Tyson Macaulay.

Reliable power in the Arctic isn’t a luxury, it is a matter of survival. Yet, northern communities and industrial sites remain overwhelmingly dependent on diesel, a fuel that is expensive, polluting, and remarkably fragile as the backbone of an entire region’s energy sys...

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