{"id":27841,"date":"2014-02-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-13T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ashleydev.com\/2014\/02\/13\/an-integral-part-of-todays-technologies\/"},"modified":"2020-08-27T11:41:20","modified_gmt":"2020-08-27T15:41:20","slug":"an-integral-part-of-todays-technologies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cna.ca\/fr\/2014\/02\/13\/an-integral-part-of-todays-technologies\/","title":{"rendered":"An Integral Part of Today\u2019s&nbsp;Technologies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By John Stewart<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Director, Policy and Research<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Canadian Nuclear Association<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A business-school professor made an interesting remark to me recently. \u201cNuclear technology let itself get branded from the start, in the 1940s, as being unique and special,\u201d he said. \u201cBut that may have hurt the technology. It helped your critics to argue that nuclear is uniquely and specially dangerous. From there, it was easy to say that nuclear needed uniquely, specially restrictive rules around it \u2013 or even to say that there\u2019s no safe amount of nuclear, period.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s right. And we could spend a while discussing his point.<\/p>\n<p>But there\u2019s another way in which nuclear\u2019s perceived uniqueness-and-specialness hurts our industry: It makes it easy to\u00a0 imagine that nuclear companies, facilities and professionals are hidden away somewhere in isolated shiny silos that don\u2019t interact with, or affect, the rest of our economy.<\/p>\n<p>The figure below shatters that image. It was made by the consultancy SECOR to illustrate some (in fact, just a few) of the working linkages between this country\u2019s nuclear-related public research facilities and other industry sectors.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2814\" style=\"width: 639px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/talknuclear.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Some-Linkages-Between-Public-Nuclear-ST-Facilities-and-Other-Industry-Sectors.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2814\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2814\" alt=\"Some Linkages Between Public Nuclear S&amp;T Facilities and Other Industry Sectors\" src=\"http:\/\/talknuclear.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Some-Linkages-Between-Public-Nuclear-ST-Facilities-and-Other-Industry-Sectors.jpg\" width=\"629\" height=\"373\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2814\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Some linkages between public nuclear science and technology facilities and other industry sectors (CNBC= Canadian Neutron Beam Centre, CLS=Canadian Light Source, SRC= Saskatchewan Research Council, UNB= University of New Brunswick).<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Keep in mind that this web of linkages was never fully drawn (data from several important universities did not get included).\u00a0 And that it does not include research facilities in industry organizations like Ontario Power Generation, Kinectrics-Candesco, and many other CNA member companies that have intimate working relationships with non-nuclear industries.<\/p>\n<p>Nuclear is an integral part of today\u2019s technologies, from crops and livestock to jet engines. CNA made this and other points this month in a submission to the federal government\u2019s Science, Technology and Innovation Strategy Consultation. Our submission also looks at the economic case for public research infrastructure, whether in telecommunications, defence, agriculture, or nuclear. Check it out <a href=\"http:\/\/talknuclear.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/CNA-ST-Consultation-2014.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By John Stewart Director, Policy and Research Canadian Nuclear Association A business-school professor made an interesting remark to me recently. \u201cNuclear technology let itself get branded from the start, in the 1940s, as being unique and special,\u201d he said. \u201cBut that may have hurt the technology. 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