Tom is a professional engineer having worked in the Ontario nuclear business for 50 years ….. and still consults, if needed. He started with Ontario Hydro in 1971 after having completed his Masters in nuclear engineering at Imperial College in London, England. He worked for ‘Hydro’ for 25 years and then started his own consulting and project management company… THE PRISM NUCLEAR GROUP.

He has worked in most aspects of the CANDU nuclear industry in Ontario, for example…. nuclear and radiation safety, nuclear wastes management, licensing and environmental approvals, reactor design and repair, and reactor rehabilitation for life extension.

Tom and his wife Louise live in Lora Bay and have lived in the Collingwood/Blue Mountains area since the early 2000s.

He will talk about…

• The history of nuclear in Canada
• How a CANDU reactor works and safety features
• Nuclear wastes, how they are currently managed, and their disposal
• Paying for wastes disposal, and reactor decommissioning
• Rehabilitation of reactors and life extension
• Future prospects for building large, small, and micro reactors… there is ‘lots of international buzz’
• …. and, finally, time for lots of questions.