Nukes for Alberta - Opinion survey

[ExtraSlow]

Given the news that Capital Power and Ontario Power have entered into an agreement to investigate bringing SMR's to Alberta, what is your opinion today?

[Tik-Tok]

Extremely positive, if done right, which they wouldn't be.

[JfuckinC]

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Extremely positive, if done right, which they wouldn't be.

Shit, I’m starting a petition to get you hired on, so they are lol

[killramos]

Booo anonymous poll. I want to know who the ninny mouth breather is

[pheoxs]

It’s the only choice for Alberta. No other power source could replace our cogens.

[firebane]

I am all for more power but at what cost? And by cost I mean of that to our province nature wise and consumer wise.

I am not educated enough when it comes to this subject to speak openly on it.

[killramos]

The same cost as the nearly 2 dozen we have in the rest of Canada. And nearly 100 currently operating in the United States.

Nothing.

Pretty sure a coal plant spews more radioactivity

[max_boost]

Isn’t France 2/3 new clear
Saul good man

[JRSC00LUDE]

Nucular, it's pronounced nucular!

[suntan]

Oh those kinds of nukes.

[CompletelyNumb]

Full steam ahead I hope.

Every person and politician that claims to support the environment should be all in on SMRs.
Every person and politician that claims to support lower cost energy should be all in on SMRs.
Every person and politician that claims to want to reduce dependence on oil/coal/whatever should be all in on SMRs.

The only people against it are assholes.

[tonytiger55]

I thought this was nuclear missiles... I was whaaa?
For those who are like me did not know what the SMR acronym was. Small Nuclear Reactor.

https://smractionplan.ca/

[killramos]

Small Modular Reactor actually

I still think everything worth doing small is worth doing big. GW scale reactors or bust.

[ExtraSlow]

As long as the governments only involvement is to make clear simple permissive regulatory environments, and private companies take the financial risks. That's my ask.

[Sentry]

I thought Bruce Power had a project for Peace River, like, 20 years ago. Did it get nimby'd to death?

[JRSC00LUDE]

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As long as the governments only involvement is to make clear simple permissive regulatory environments, and private companies take the financial risks. That's my ask.

How's that crack Tyrone?

[Xtrema]

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I thought Bruce Power had a project for Peace River, like, 20 years ago. Did it get nimby'd to death?

It's for the oilsand and NIMBY are the reserves that are downstream of Peace.

And SMR may not change that and latest study thinks it's worse.

https://news.stanford.edu/2022/05/30...nuclear-waste/

Small modular reactors, long touted as the future of nuclear energy, will actually generate more radioactive waste than conventional nuclear power plants, according to research from Stanford and the University of British Columbia.

Our results show that most small modular reactor designs will actually increase the volume of nuclear waste in need of management and disposal, by factors of 2 to 30 for the reactors in our case study.

Thanks UBC!

[CompletelyNumb]

Bias study. Fake news.

[davidI]

Does Red Deer still have the motto "A Nuclear Free Zone"?

I always used to have a laugh at that driving through.

[ExtraSlow]

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Does Red Deer still have the motto "A Nuclear Free Zone"?

I always used to have a laugh at that driving through.

Cochrane had that once upon a time.