Science and Research committee  Nuclear energy represents a large up-front cost in terms of the capital costs of getting a reactor built, but it delivers. Our CANDU reactors have been running for 40 years. They're at mid-life, the time when we refurbish them and give them another 40 years of operation. That ca

Science and Research committee  I found this pop can in the ice bin out there, and I brought it to sit with me, because this is the amount of nuclear waste that you would produce if, during your entire life as a member of an OECD country, all of your energy was produced by nuclear energy. We produce very little

Science and Research committee  As I said in my opening remarks, Canada is blessed with hydroelectric resources. In four of our main provinces, we get more than 90% of our energy from hydro. Those provinces have clean grids, and that brings Canada's average emissions, when it comes to electricity, to a pretty c

Science and Research committee  Thank you so much for having me. It's a pleasure to be here. My name is Chris Keefer. I'm a Toronto-based emergency physician and the president of Canadians for Nuclear Energy. I'll be making three main points in my testimony today. First, nuclear energy is the keystone technolo

Natural Resources committee  Thank you for the question, Mario. I don't have data precisely on New Brunswick. I think it's important to remember that nuclear plants were built instead of coal and gas plants. Our Pickering nuclear station was built instead of a four-gigawatt coal plant. I'm not sure what wo

Natural Resources committee  Quebec, as we heard from our friend involved in the electric vehicle fleet, is going to need to use a lot more of its own electricity. We would be shameless, I think, to freeload off that generation that they've built in Quebec. We each need to take responsibility for our own cli

Natural Resources committee  No, no. I—

Natural Resources committee  It's the waste that's produced in reactors basically everywhere in the world outside Canada, and it's what's going to be put into the Finnish repository. I think you really need to consult with some more physicists and nuclear engineers on this to understand this issue in more d

Natural Resources committee  In regards to the IPCC—

Natural Resources committee  I never said that, Charlie.

Natural Resources committee  I said after a thousand years the only way it could hurt you is if you pulverized it and ate it. I'm not suggesting anyone eat nuclear waste, Charlie.

Natural Resources committee  Charlie, honestly, speak to some of the geologists.

Natural Resources committee  It sounds like you've looked at them recently.

Natural Resources committee  Across Canada solar averages around 15% capacity factor, meaning it produces 15% of the installed amount that you've made. Wind is usually around 30% to 35%. CANDUs are running over 90%.

Natural Resources committee  One can look at the example of Germany, which has the most expensive electricity in the EU, and California as well. While building a solar farm is cheap, the cost of the electricity produced.... When you flick the switch, you're not just getting solar energy. When the sun goes do