Small Modular Nuclear Reactors
(SMNRs or SMRs)

Nuclear-Based Fantasies are holding back real climate action
(SMR Education Task Force, June22, 2023)
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Proposed SMNR for Darlington — the BWRX-300;
Part 1: “Much Ado About Siting” (G Edwards, March 20, 2023)
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Proposed SMNR for Darlington — the BWRX-300;
CCNR Submission to CNSC (Edwards & Nijhawan, March 20, 2023)
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Radio interview with Gordon Edwards
on Small Modular Reactors (CBC Saint John, April 1, 2022 )
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Some of the SMNRs Proposed for Canada (Slide Show, April 9, 2021) ]

Small Modular Nuclear Reactors and
Prolferation of Nuclear Weapons (Edwards, Jan 12, 2021)
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Extracting plutonium: “The Problems with Pyroprocessing”
(video, April 29, 2021, E. Lyman, Union of Concerned Scientists)
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Holiday Gift to Nuclear Industry “Naughty, not Nice”
Groups Oppose Government Funding for SMNRs (Release, Dec 17, 2020)
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Small Modular Nuclear Reactors –
Not Clean, Not Small, Not Green, Not Affordable (Video, Mar 13 2020)
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SMNRs – Not Clean, Small, Green or Affordable
text of presentation linked above (transcript, Mar 13 2020) 
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Small Modular Nuclear Reactors – A Case of Wishful Thinking (Dec 18 2019) ]

Small Modular Nuclear Reactors – The Pied Piper Strikes Again (January 2019) ]

[ Canada’s First SMNR – The SLOWPOKE District Heating Nuclear Reactor ]
[ video, Oct 2 1989, G Edwards in Saskatoon, 2 hours)  ]

Small Modular Reactors and Radioactive Waste ]
[ video, Sept 2019, Science for Peace, starts at 24 minutes)  ]

Radioactive Wastes and SMNRs in Canada ]
[scroll down for audio, Aug 2019, Nuclear Hotseat, starts at 16 minutes) 
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Chiefs oppose small reactors on First Nations territory (July 16 2019) ]

“Don’t exempt SMNRs from Environmental Assessment” ]
(Grand Chief of the Anishinabek Nation, March 29 2019)
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First Nations Chiefs – Resolution Against SMNRs (Nov 20-21-22 2018) ]

NRCan: Summary of Canada’s Nuclear Road Map for SMNRs ]
(Ministry of Natural Resources, November 2018) 
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Red Light for Canada’s Nuclear Road Map for SMNRs
(video of Media Conference, Nov 3 2018, Ottawa, 24m) 
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SMR = Second Make-Believe Renaissance (Sep 12 2018) ]

Thorium Reactors — Back to the Dream Factory (July 2011) ]