Nuclear Energy is Union Energy Feat: Bob Walker

We CANDU It

Nuclear energy is only possible thanks to a highly skilled, largely unionized workforce. In popular culture nuclear workers have been portrayed as incompetent by the Simpson or as evil incarnate by anti-nuclear activists like Dr Helen Caldicott. In Canada nuclear generation is publicly owned and run by a highly unionized workforce. It provides cheap, clean and reliable energy to the commons AKA our grid. Due to the incredibly energy density of nuclear energy each worker has an outsized role in preventing the burning of fossil fuels and producing large amounts of air pollution free and ultra low emissions electricity. I am joined by Bob Walker the national director of the Canadian Nuclear Workers Council to demystify what nuclear workers do, how nuclear energy is a uniquely potent job creator and why political parties and many unions have not engaged or even turned their backs on nuclear workers and their unions.