"Green Bitumen?!" - Nuclear reactors in the tar sands

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"Green Bitumen?!" - Nuclear reactors in the tar sands

by D'Arcy Hande, Mark Bigland-Pritchard - August 27, 2012 - The Dominion

QUOTE: Proponents of nuclear energy are claiming small nuclear reactors in Saskatchewan will make the Alberta tar sands more environmentally friendly, all in an effort to revive the nuclear industry.

EXCERPT: "SASKATOON—What do you get when you cross a nuclear reactor with a hydraulic shovel-full of tar sands? The answer, according to the Canadian Energy Research Institute, is "Green Bitumen." . . . .

Time will tell whether the organized struggles against well-funded vested interests in western Canada will overcome the proposed publicly-subsidized proliferation of small nuclear reactors in the tar sands or anywhere else. The battle between truly sustainable energy options and the "Green Bitumen" of the conventional energy industry continues."

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