{"id":27915,"date":"2015-01-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-09T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ashleydev.com\/2015\/01\/09\/top-ten-nuclear-news-stories-in-2014\/"},"modified":"2020-08-27T11:41:10","modified_gmt":"2020-08-27T15:41:10","slug":"top-ten-nuclear-news-stories-in-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cna.ca\/fr\/2015\/01\/09\/top-ten-nuclear-news-stories-in-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Ten Nuclear News Stories in&nbsp;2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Romeo St-Martin<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Communications\u00a0Officer<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Canadian Nuclear Association<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Greater media coverage and government concern about climate change powered a steady supply of nuclear energy issues in the media in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>As 2014 closed, Japan pressed ahead with plans to restart its nuclear reactors, Germany\u2019s Energiewende continued to raise questions about whether renewables can replace fossil fuels, and more and more environmentalists came to support nuclear power.<\/p>\n<p>Here, in no particular order, are 10 of the most-talked-about nuclear energy issues of 2014.<\/p>\n<h2>China<\/h2>\n<p>The nuclear industry\u2019s Asian expansion continued, with China leading the way.\u00a0Not only is the country\u2019s economy expanding, lifting millions out of poverty, but its middle class is fed up with coal-driven\u00a0pollution in\u00a0major cities.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Barack Obama announced a surprise climate agreement in December that would see China\u2019s CO2 emissions peak by 2030.<\/p>\n<p>Not surprisingly, Chinese leaders have begun to rapidly develop nuclear power, as the negative impact of Japan&#8217;s nuclear crisis in 2011 wanes. Under the country\u2019s National Energy Administration&#8217;s latest Five-Year Plan, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wantchinatimes.com\/news-subclass-cnt.aspx?id=20141114000037&amp;cid=1201\">China will invest $196 billion in 101 new reactors between 2015 and 2030<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Canada will play a role in this scale-up.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.candu.com\/en\/home\/default.aspx\">Candu Energy Inc<\/a>. announced in November that its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.candu.com\/site\/media\/Parent\/CANDU%20brochure-AFCR-2014.pdf\">Advanced Fuel CANDU\u00a0Reactor<\/a> (AFCR) earned a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.candu.com\/en\/home\/news\/mediareleases\/CanduEnergyWelcomesPositiveReviewofAFCR.aspx\">positive review<\/a> from a Chinese scientific panel. The review will lead to further development and construction with significant benefits to the Canadian industry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a big step toward our entry into the biggest nuclear market in the world,\u201d Jerry Hopwood, vice-president of Candu Energy, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/business\/2014\/11\/06\/new_candu_reactors_clear_hurdle_in_china.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told the Toronto Star<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Radiation in perspective<\/h2>\n<p>Stories that brought perspective to radiation exposure were popular in social media, catalyzed in part by a United Nations report that dispelled one of the most popular myths regarding the 2011 Fukushima nuclear meltdown.<\/p>\n<p>The United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/rosspomeroy\/2014\/02\/27\/smoking-is-more-dangerous-than-fukushima-radiation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said in its April report<\/a> that it did not expect \u201csignificant changes\u201d in future cancer rates that could be attributed to radiation exposure from the reactor meltdowns.<\/p>\n<p>Social media also took note of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-27220800\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a study by a Scottish mountain climber<\/a> and radiation-protection advisor who found climbers scaling Mt. Everest received a radiation dose five times more than the average annual exposure of a UK nuclear power worker.<\/p>\n<h2>Google\u2019s <em>Energiewende<\/em><\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3714 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/talknuclear.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/google-hq.jpg\" alt=\"google hq\" width=\"400\" \/>Wind and solar energy\u2019s continuing unpredictability gained widespread attention thanks to in part to a viral story about Google\u2019s decision to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.org\/rec.html\">scrap its renewable energy program, RE&lt;C<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Trying to combat climate change exclusively with today\u2019s renewable energy technologies simply won\u2019t work; we need a fundamentally different approach,&#8221; wrote Google&#8217;s Ross Koningstein and David Fork <a href=\"http:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/energy\/renewables\/what-it-would-really-take-to-reverse-climate-change\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">in a piece<\/a> published in IEEE&#8217;s Spectrum.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe felt that with steady improvements to today\u2019s renewable energy technologies, our society could stave off catastrophic climate change. We now know that to be a false hope\u2014but that doesn\u2019t mean the planet is doomed.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Climate debate<\/h2>\n<p>Nuclear\u2019s contribution to climate change mitigation gained further global recognition. <em>The Economist<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/talknuclear.ca\/2014\/09\/nuclear-is-the-no-3-contributor-to-climate-change-mitigation-the-economist\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">published a chart<\/a> that listed nuclear power as the third-biggest contributor to GHG reductions, trailing the Montreal Protocol (which reduced chlorofluorocarbons, hydrochlorofluorocarbons and\u00a0hydrofluorocarbons) and\u00a0hydroelectricity, but much further ahead of renewables.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3366\" src=\"http:\/\/talknuclear.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/To-slash-or-to-trim-1024x984.png\" alt=\"To slash or to trim\" width=\"520\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Also the <a href=\"http:\/\/theenergycollective.com\/rodadams\/370626\/ipcc-working-group-iii-recommends-nearly-quadrupling-nuclear-energy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">latest policy report<\/a> by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) included nuclear among the clean energy technologies whose total output must quadruple to help avert catastrophic climate effects.<\/p>\n<h2>Environmentalists continue to go nuclear<\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_3706\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3706\" class=\"wp-image-3706 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/talknuclear.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/carol-browner-300x175.jpg\" alt=\"Carol Browner, former director of the White House Office of Energy and Climate Change Policy\" width=\"300\" height=\"175\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3706\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carol Browner, former director of the White House Office of Energy and Climate Change Policy<\/p><\/div>\n<p>More environmentalists and scientists joined the likes of James Hansen and Mark Lynas as <a href=\"https:\/\/cna.ca\/news\/prominent-environmentalists-embrace-nuclear\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">public advocates of nuclear energy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Carol Browner, former director of the White House Office of Energy and Climate Change Policy, joined the advocacy group Nuclear Matters.<\/p>\n<p>Browner said <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/realspin\/2014\/05\/05\/if-youre-concerned-about-climate-change-you-should-support-nuclear-power\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">in a Forbes piece<\/a> that she had been anti-nuclear, but changed her position because of nuclear\u2019s beneficial role in offsetting climate change.<\/p>\n<p>In December, 75 conservationist scientists wrote an open letter to environmentalists urging them to reconsider nuclear energy because it helps preserve biodiversity.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the <a href=\"http:\/\/bravenewclimate.com\/2014\/12\/15\/an-open-letter-to-environmentalists-on-nuclear-energy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">quote from their letter<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cAlthough renewable energy sources like wind and solar will likely make increasing contributions to future energy production, these technology options face real-world problems of scalability, cost, material and land use, meaning that it is too risky to rely on them as the only alternatives to fossil fuels. Nuclear power\u2014being by far the most compact and energy-dense of sources\u2014could also make a major, and perhaps leading, contribution. As scientists, we declare that an evidence-based approach to future energy production is an essential component of securing biodiversity\u2019s future and cannot be ignored. It is time that conservationists make their voices heard in this policy arena.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><em>Energiewende<\/em><\/h2>\n<p>Germany continued its nuclear phase-out in 2014, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearenergy.org\/charticles\/2014\/01\/16\/germanys_plans_for_new_coal_plants_107463.html#.Utlp27WUXJ8.twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">creating a need for more coal-fired electrical production<\/a>. Enough said.<\/p>\n<h2>Ontario goes coal-free thanks to nuclear<\/h2>\n<p>Ontario became the first North American jurisdiction to end the use of coal in electricity generation. The event was even <a href=\"http:\/\/www.treehugger.com\/renewable-energy\/province-ontario-bans-coal-power-plants-al-gore-cheers.html\">noted by former U.S. vice president Al Gore<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Nuclear power played a major role. Between 2000 and 2013, nuclear-powered electrical generation rose 20 percent, coinciding with a 27 percent drop in coal-fired electricity. During the same period, non-hydro renewables increased from one percent to 3.4 percent. This major transition to a cleaner Ontario <a href=\"https:\/\/cna.ca\/news\/nuclear-brings-clean-air-ontario\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">could not have happened without nuclear<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>DGR<\/h2>\n<p>Also in Ontario, OPG\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/opgdgr.com\/\">proposal to create a deep geologic repository<\/a> for low- and intermediate-level waste remained in the headlines. \u00a0The CNA appeared for the second time before the joint review panel to <a href=\"https:\/\/cna.ca\/news\/remarks-at-the-joint-review-panel-hearing-on-opgs-proposed-dgr\/\">voice our support<\/a> for the initiative.<\/p>\n<p>OPG, with the support of the surrounding community, has proposed a permanent management solution for these materials. This speaks to the proactive and responsible environmental management to which all members of the Canadian Nuclear Association are committed.<\/p>\n<h2>Fusion<\/h2>\n<p>One of the biggest news stories featured an announcement by Lockheed Martin\u2019s Skunk Works division that it had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lockheedmartin.ca\/us\/products\/compact-fusion.html\">made a breakthrough in developing a fusion reactor<\/a> and could have one small enough to fit on the back of a truck in 10 years. The announcement stunned <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/lockheed-martin-s-fusion-goals-meet-scepticism-1.16169\">nuclear-savvy observers<\/a> who had thought such a development would take much longer than a decade.<\/p>\n<h2>Quebec imports<\/h2>\n<p>Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne and Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard <a href=\"http:\/\/news.ontario.ca\/opo\/en\/2014\/11\/renewed-quebec-ontario-partnership-leads-to-results.html\">signed an agreement<\/a> November 21st on electricity. Ontario will make 500 megawatts available to Quebec to manage its winter demand peak, while Quebec will reciprocate for Ontario\u2019s summertime peak.<\/p>\n<p>The capacity amounts are small, representing about 1.4 percent of Ontario\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ieso.ca\/Pages\/Ontario%27s-Power-System\/Supply-Mix\/default.aspx\">installed generating capacity of 33,771 megawatts<\/a> (MW), and less than four percent of Ontario\u2019s nuclear generating capacity of 12,947 MW.<\/p>\n<p>In announcing the Quebec agreement, Ontario\u2019s Premier Wynne rejected suggestions that imported electricity could reduce Ontario\u2019s reliance on nuclear power. &#8220;We&#8217;re not anywhere near having a conversation like that,&#8221; Wynne <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thespec.com\/news-story\/5151656-ontario-and-quebec-governments-sign-deals-on-climate-change-energy-projects\/\">told reporters<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Romeo St-Martin Communications\u00a0Officer Canadian Nuclear Association Greater media coverage and government concern about climate change powered a steady supply of nuclear energy issues in the media in 2014. 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