Canadian nuclear companies General Fusion and Ottawa Valley Research are among several dozen co’s featured in a new report by Vancouver cleantech research firm Kachan & Co.

The report is titled Emerging Nuclear Innovations, and was published last week. An executive summary and a product sheet are here. Kachan principal Dallas Kachan blogs about one of the secretive fusion companies featured in the report here.

The report maintains the world will not abandon nuclear energy because of the Fukushima Daiichi incident in Japan. Most worldwide nuclear authorities still project growth in nuclear power. But the Japanese plant failures underscored the need for new, safer types of nuclear power that have been quietly in gestation for years. For instance, power plants that don’t rely on uranium, and/or that are much smaller in scale, or that don’t produce weaponizable byproducts. Or that are capable of consuming today’s vast stores of plutonium waste. Or that are based on reactions that can’t possibly melt down or explode in the face of natural disasters or terrorist attack. The Kachan report profiles companies at the leading edge of this science.