Nuclear Energy is Union Energy feat. Bob Walker

Nuclear energy is only possible thanks to a highly-skilled,
largely unionized workforce. In popular culture, nuclear workers
have been portrayed as incompetent (e.g. 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 energy density of
fission, each nuclear worker has an outsized role in preventing
the burning of fossil fuels and producing large amounts of air
pollution-free and low emissions electricity. I am joined by Bob
Walker, the national director of the Canadian Nuclear Worker's
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.


This interview was originally recorded for the January 3, 2021
episode of We CANDU It.