Publications

The CEDAR project initiates and supports media interventions to reveal, critique, and challenge the power structures involved in energy transitions and the messages they promote.

This page features relevant publications (slide decks, presentations, papers, articles, commentaries, videos, briefs, public submissions, podcasts) produced by CEDAR team members since our project started in April 2023. Click on the link in the reference to view or download.

2024

Ramana, M. V. (2024). Nuclear is not the solution with M.V. Ramana. Oats for Breakfast, an Eco-Socialist Podcast. 55 minutes. October.

Viens, N., Sapinski, J.P., Laurin-Lamothe, A. in collaboration with Pineault, É. (2024). Decarbonization, Hegemonic Projects, and the Green Growth Policy-Planning Network: The Case of Québec. Environmental Sociology. doi: 10.1080/23251042.2024.2387418.

Ramana, M.V. & Blaise, K. (2024). Regulation vs promotion: Small modular nuclear reactors in Canada. Energy Policy, volume 192. September.

Goranson, Q. & Ramana, M.V. (2024). Nuclear Power on the Prairies Is a Green Smokescreen. Canada’s National Observer, August 15.

Lloyd, B. & O’Donnell, S. (2024). Small Modular Nuclear Reactors (SMRs) in Canada. WISE/NIRS Nuclear Monitor, August 29, 2024 | Issue #918.

Ramana, M.V. (2024). Nuclear is Not the Solution: The Folly of Atomic Power in the Age of Climate Change. Verso Books.

O’Donnell, S. (2024). Nuclear Adopts ‘Emergency Framing’ Around Climate, But Still Can’t Deliver: M.V. Ramana. The Energy Mix, August 3.

Fackenthall, E. (2024). Where will New Brunswick’s small modular waste go? NB Media Co-op, June 30.

O’Donnell, S. (2024). Do the research and end the nuclear hype in New Brunswick. NB Media Co-op, June 29.

Bartlett, A. (2024). Chief Akagi requests public hearing to review any new governance arrangement for the Point Lepreau nuclear reactor on Peskotomuhkati homeland. NB Media Co-op, June 10.

O’Donnell, S. & Edwards, G. (2024). Fifty years after Canada’s plutonium mishap in India, is history repeating itself? The Hill Times, and republished in the NB Media Co-op on May 16.

Goranson, Q. (2024). Ontario’s nuclear option is the wrong path to meet green energy targets. Policy Options, May 13.

Hurley, E. (2024). We must move forward with energy transition in responsible and caring ways. NB Media Co-op, April 16.

Ramana, M.V. & Groll, S. (2024). Small reactors don’t add up as a viable energy source. 360, April 16.

Fackenthall, E. (2024). Green groups gather to denounce the ‘Nuclear Fairy Tale’ at international Nuclear Energy Summit. NB Media Co-op, April 4.

Hurley, E. (2024). Say no to small modular reactors: Stop normalizing the exploitation of nature. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, April 1.

O’Donnell, S. & Winfield, M. (2024). ‘Nuclear Dinosaurs’ Roam New Brunswick, Ontario as ‘Jurassic’ Partnership Looms. The Energy Mix, April 1.

Edwards, G. & O’Donnell, S. (2024). Nuclear industry wants Canada to lift ban on reprocessing plutonium, despite proliferation risks. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, March 11.

Chishtie, F.A. & Ramana, M.V. (2024). Tripling nuclear energy by 2050 will take a miracle, and miracles don’t happen. Down to Earth, February 3.

Ramana, M.V. (2024). The collapse of NuScale’s project should spell the end for small modular nuclear reactors. Utility Dive, January 31.

Ramana, M.V. (2024). COP28 pledge to expand nuclear capacity is out of touch with reality. PV Magazine, January 30.

Tanguay, L. & Ramana, M.V. (2024). Ontario Power Generation wasting time exploring French reactors. Canada’s National Observer, January 18.

O’Donnell, S. & Ramana, M.V. (2024). ‘PR Fairy Dust’ Has Canada Tripling Nuclear Capacity by 2050. The Energy Mix, January 8.

2023

Ramana, M.V. & O’Donnell, S. (2023). Big costs sink flagship nuclear project and will sink future small modular reactor projects, too. The Hill Times, November 23.

O’Donnell, S. & Vasser, M. (2023). Nuclear energy is not ‘clean’ or ‘green’ in the European Union’s taxonomy. The Hill Times, November 8.

O’Donnell, S. (2023). Nuclear and biomass central to New Brunswick’s ‘net zero’ energy plan. NB Media Co-op, October 17.

O’Donnell, S. (2023). “Don’t say ‘plutonium,’ say ‘recycling’: the nuclear industry, the government and the public sphere.” Slides of the presentation to the Atlantic Provinces Political Science Association annual conference, St. Thomas University, Fredericton, October 14.

Akagi, H. & O’Donnell, S. (2023). New Brunswick Indigenous communities and Canadians need facts about SMNRs, not sales hype. The Hill Times, September 28. Republished by the NB Media Co-op on October 2. An edited version was published by the Telegraph Journal on October 14.

Wang, J. & Ramana, M.V. (2023). Canada needs to accelerate its transition to renewable energy. Policy Options. September 22.

Höffken, J. & Ramana, M.V. (2023). Nuclear power and environmental injustice. WIRES Energy and Environment. 21 September.

McLean, T. & O’Donnell, S. (2023). NB Power has its head stuck in uranium. NB Media Co-op, September 1 (Republished by the Telegraph Journal on September 28).

O’Donnell, S. & Blaise, K. (2023). Will this experimental nuclear reactor escape federal scrutiny? Canada’s National Observer, July 26. (Republished by the NB Media Co-op on July 31)

Ramana, M.V. & O’Donnell, S. (2023). Wishful thinking about nuclear energy won’t get us to net zero. The Hill Times, July 3. (Republished by the NB Media Co-op on July 7.)

O’Donnell, S., Harvey, J. & Ramana, M.V. (2023). “Climate capitalism, growth, and nuclear power expansion in Canada.” Slides of the presentation at the Socialist Studies Society Annual Conference, York University, Toronto, May 27.