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Susan O’Donnell and Gordon Edwards

Fifty years after Canada’s plutonium mishap in India, is history repeating itself?

In 2021, U.S. non-proliferation experts sent an open letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau expressing concern that Canada ‘will undermine the global nuclear weapons non-proliferation regime’ following a funding decision for a company working on technology to extract plutonium from used nuclear fuel. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
In 2021, U.S. non-proliferation experts sent an open letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau expressing concern that Canada ‘will undermine the global nuclear weapons non-proliferation regime’ following a funding decision for a company working on technology to extract plutonium from used nuclear fuel. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh, Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet and Green Party Leader Annamie Paul. The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade and Sam Garcia
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh, Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet and Green Party Leader Annamie Paul. The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade and Sam Garcia
The federal government recently supported the Moltex project with a $50.5-million grant, announced on March 18 by Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc, right, in Saint John. At the event, Mr. LeBlanc and New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs described the Moltex project as 'recycling' nuclear waste. The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade
The federal government recently supported the Moltex project with a $50.5-million grant, announced on March 18 by Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc, right, in Saint John. At the event, Mr. LeBlanc and New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs described the Moltex project as 'recycling' nuclear waste. The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade