OPEN LETTER: Ontario NDP’s decision to promote nuclear power is historic mistake

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The Ontario NDP’s decision to promote nuclear power as clean, green and affordable is an historic mistake. This open letter is an attempt to stop the Ontario NDP from making a terrible mistake. Premier Doug Ford has repeatedly called nuclear power “clean and affordable.” That’s like calling lasagna and cheesecake weight loss foods. One of the biggest concerns in Ford’s nuclear power plan is the private-public-partnership (P3) financing of new nuclear plants, particularly experimental and unproven Small Modular Reactors SMR’s. Nuclear power is inefficient, a large part of nuclear power is lost to heat and line loss.