Gordon Edwards

Muon scans confirm complete reactor meltdown at Fukushima Reactor #1 It has long been known that three of the reactor cores at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear station suffered meltdowns. In Units 1, 2 and 3, the nuclear fuel inside the…

Canada’s nuclear waste producers are looking for a place to abandon 50,000 tonnes of nuclear fuel waste.  This waste is extremely toxic, very long-lived, and virtually indestructible. More is being produced every day.  The amount is expected to double over…

Some of your readers may be interested in viewing my presentation on Nuclear Waste Governance in Canada, presented in Salzburg Austria last September: http://ccnr.org/salzburg_2_2014.pdf . Unfortunately, the author of the ROB article damages his credibility early on by making some…

Gordon Edwards placed a clarifying forward online regarding the article, “No More Weapons-Grade Uranium for Medical Use?: Canada ships first synchrotron isotopes”. We reproduce same here for readers technical reference. 1. The old messy way of getting medical isotopes using…

Farley Mowat died 7 May, 2014, at the age of 92. “He was one of a kind – his writing and his life infused with humour and a genuine love and respect for all living things – except for the…

For financial reasons, the US Department of Energy has decided to halt plans to use weapons-grade plutonium from dismantled nuclear warheads to fabricate fuel for civilian power reactors. Plutonium is the primary nuclear explosive in most of the world’s nuclear…