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Canadian government happily splashing tax-payers’ money on wasteful things nuclear

Gordon Edwards, 6 Nov 2025

A comment on https://www.msn.com/en-ph/technology/general/the-smr-boom-will-soon-go-bust/ar-AA1PJi1U

This is your ultraconservative radical, Gordon, sounding a note of caution.

The fact that our utilities are publicly owned means that ordinary economic rules need not apply.

The military brings in little or no revenue but the government still funds it.

Gentilly-2 in Quebec was a loser always, and I told reporters to ask Hydro Quebec to give just one good economic reason why the G-2 reactor should not be shut down.  No economic reason was forthcoming but the government of Quebec said “we want to maintain a minimal level of expertise in the nuclear field.”

So do not expect SMRs in Canada to be cancelled just because they are uneconomic. 

Who cares? It’s not THEIR money they are spending, it’s OURS.

November 8, 2025 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | business and costs