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10 June – Assessing Canada’s Investments in Small Modular Nuclear Reactors

Join us for IPPNWC’s June Speaker Series!  https://mailchi.mp/ippnwcanada/speaker-series-tonight-wq3kuusxkm-14196944?e=02ebf7a205

We are so pleased to be joined by MV Ramana and Gordon Edwards for our June Speaker Series, where they will present on “Assessing Canada’s Investment in Small Modular Nuclear Reactors. This discussion will expand wonderfully on the Dr. Ramana and Edwards’ presentations at IPPNWC’s prescription for health event the weekend prior, which you can register for here. 

M.V. Ramana is the Simons Chair in Disarmament, Global  and Human Security and Professor at the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. He is the author of “Nuclear is not the Solution: The Folly of Atomic Power in the Age of Climate Change” (Verso books, 2024), “The Power of Promise: Examining Nuclear Energy in India” (Penguin Books, 2012), and co‑editor of “Prisoners of the Nuclear Dream” (Orient Longman, 2003). He is a member of the International Panel on Fissile Materials (IPFM), the International Nuclear Risk Assessment Group (INRAG), and the team that produces the annual World Nuclear Industry Status Report. He is the recipient of a  Guggenheim  Fellowship and a Leo Szilard Award from the American Physical Society.

Gordon Edwards is a mathematician, physicist, nuclear consultant, and president of the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility (www.ccnr.org). He is based in Montreal. As an educator, he aims to make complex nuclear issues understandable to those who are not trained in the physical sciences while adhering to rigorous scientific principles. As an intervenor for over fifty years in inquiries, proceedings and court cases in every province and territory of Canada, as well as in other countries, he has gained a reputation as one of Canada’s foremost independent experts on a wide range of nuclear issues. He served as science advisor to Physicians for Global Survival for many years

This event is a collaboration with our friends at Doctors for Planetary Health West Coast- thank you to Linda and co for your generous support in organising! We are also grateful to John Guilfoyle who will be moderating, and Tim Takaro will be joining to share a land acknowledgement- this month is a true team effort!

We hope you will join us June 10^th at 5PM PT/ 8 PM ET! You can register for the meeting here. We look forward to seeing you!

June 8, 2026 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Events