[1] He graduated from the University of Toronto in 1961 with a gold medal in Mathematics and Physics and a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship.
[6] Since then, Edwards has been featured on Canadian national television broadcasts and in documentaries as a critic of the nuclear industry.
The first, in 1998, was called The Friendly Atom and considered how nuclear technology has been used for peaceful purposes and for war.
Edwards and Alex Mayman, Vice-President of Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd., were interviewed in the episode.
The episode featured Edwards alongside Duncan Hawthorne, the president and CEO of Bruce Power, the world’s largest operating nuclear facility.
[16] Edwards has provided consulting services on nuclear issues to governmental and non-governmental bodies at the provincial, territorial, national and international levels.