I have to go on. I only have six minutes.
I'm just Charlie from northern Ontario, but I'm reading the IPCC reports. They have flagged this as a serious concern.
I want to go to the Toronto Star of April 2 and David Olive. I'm sure you read his article about small modular reactors. He says that with over 20 years still in development, and still in the concept stage, current SMR designs won't achieve widespread deployment until the mid-2030s.
He writes:
By then, they would have been overtaken by improvements in existing clean-energy sources and future advances in biomass, hydrogen and methane-emission reduction.
He says:
SMRs, by contrast, are a boutique technology. Given the urgency of climate crisis, even a modest distraction by SMRs might be an extravagance we can’t afford.
He refers to it as a boutique boondoggle.
Given the fact that we know these other technologies are up and ready to go, why go down this road?