By Todd De Ryck
Here is a post I wrote in December, 2025: “It’s only waste if we waste it“.
Cal Doucette, Director, Engineering with ARC Clean Technology in New Brunswick will conduct a webinar about their company, their sodium fast nuclear reactor, their experience completing two stages of the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission’s (CNSC) pre licensing vendor design review and will discuss why spent nuclear fuel, or “nuclear waste” is actually a valuable resource.
Their nuclear reactor is based on the EBR II (Experimental Breeder Reactor II), which operated for 30 years at Idaho National Labs. Here is a 20 minute film “Making a Contribution: The Story of EBR-II“. Here is an eight-minute segment from the pro-nuclear documentary “Pandora’s Promise” specifically about the EBR II “The Integral Fast Reactor“.
Here is the full version of “Pandora’s Promise,” which made its debut on CNN in November 2013: https://youtu.be/YPIHWrRuHlE?si=xiqdcgjstIs_7zON.
Here are two books related to the technical details of this reactor and its potential: “Plentiful Energy” and “Prescription for the Planet“.
Cal Doucette
Director, Engineering, ARC Clean Technology
Cal Doucette has over 30 years of engineering experience in the petrochemical, wood products, air pollution control, solvent recycling, telecommunications, consulting engineering, and nuclear industries. He has been a plant manager, multidisciplinary project manager, lead engineer, and president of a privately owned consulting engineering firm.
Cal served as a design engineering section head and system responsible operations specialist with Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL). He was also the project manager for emergency core cooling strainer installations, lead engineer for the NRU vessel leak repair project and responsible for the processing of legacy liquid waste through the CNL liquid waste immobilization system. Cal holds a Bachelor of Chemical Engineering degree from McGill University.