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• Canadian government inches closer to coherent nuclear strategy

  
  Canadian energy issues — Authority: 104
  H ow should Canada resolve the medical isotope crisis? A new report , commissioned by the federal government, says we should build a new multi-purpose research reactor which can produce isotopes on the side.  Though this is the most expensive of the options presented in the report, the authors point out the ...
  2 days ago

• Chalk River Employees Want To Be Operator Of Aging Nuclear Facility

  
  MyTownTalks — Authority: 510
  AHN Staff Chalk River, Ontario (AHN) - The employees of the shuttered Chalk River Nuclear plant will launch a media campaign this week to seek support for their plan to have control over the aging nuclear facility. Because of the prolonged repair of the facility that once provided the bulk of medical isotopes, the ...
  5 days ago

• Where’s the focus on AECL’s future?

  
  Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes — Authority: 513
  A Canadian think tank says it knows - there isn’t one - at least for now Atomic Energy Canada Ltd. ( AECL ) has not had an easy time over the past several years. Despite record levels of financial support from the central government, it has managed to repeatedly disrupt North American medical isotope ...
  5 days ago

• Canada now eyes India as partner in global nuclear market

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 727
  By Gurmukh SinghToronto, Dec 1 (IANS) Welcoming the nuclear agreement with India, Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL), the country’s top nuclear regulatory body, said Monday it now views India not merely as a new market but also as a global partner in nuclear energy technology.AECL said the agreement will renew ...
  6 days ago

• Someday, this could all be ours...

  
  Accidental Deliberations — Authority: 542
  Express India : A radiation leak at the Kaiga Nuclear Plant in Karnatakas north Kannada district has left 55 employees in the maintenance unit falling sick in the suspected radiation poisoning. The sick employees are being treated for increased level of tritium, a radioactive isotope of hydrogen in their bodies, ...
  1 week ago

• Harpers India-Canada nuclear deal: who does it benefit?

  
  Impolitical — Authority: 565
  Big news yesterday: "Canada, India reach nuclear deal." Namely: Canada and India announced a major nuclear trade deal Saturday. Officials in Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s office say the agreement, which has been in the works since the summer, will allow Canadian firms to export and import “controlled” ...
  1 week ago

• Canada and Indian Reactors

  
  The Nuclear Green Revolution — Authority: 128
  It has recently been proposed that t he Canadian reactor manufacture company Atomic Energy Canada, Limited should be sold to Indian interests , presumably t he Nuclear Power Corporation of India ( NPCIL ), an Indian government owned business that builds and operates Indian power reactors. NPCIL is a very successful ...
  1 week ago

• Impact of the medical isotope shortage (video)

  
  Impolitical — Authority: 565
  A video put out by a group called " United for a Secure Stable Supply ," advocating for Canadian medical isotope production. From their press release: The global medical isotope shortage began in May 2009, when Canada announced that its 52-year-old nuclear reactor in Chalk River, Ontario, would be closed for repairs ...
  2 weeks ago

• Sell AECL to India

  
  FP Comment — Authority: 644
  Canada wants to sell CANDU nuclear reactors to India. A better idea is to sell India the whole company By Ron Banerjee W ith Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s recent trip to India, a lot of attention has been focused on the possibility of saving AECL, a federally owned crown corporation, by selling CANDU ...
  2 weeks ago

• Is Areva out of Ontario? And can AECL and Westinghouse dance?

  
  Canadian energy issues — Authority: 104
  I t costs $3 million to have a nuclear reactor design reviewed by the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission. Compared to other nuclear expenditures that’s not a huge amount of money. So when Areva, the French nuclear giant, decided to halt its CNSC design review , you have to wonder if Areve just saw the writing on ...
  4 weeks ago

• Nuclear power: In the crosshairs at a crossroads?

  
  Centre Flow — Authority: 137
  Natural Resources Minister Lisa Raitt evidently worries that Atomic Energy of Canada Limited, a global pioneer in power reactor technology, is vulnerable.“When it comes to the nuclear industry, I’m like a lot of Canadians – I’m proud of it,” she told an Economic Club of Canada audience recently. But that ...
  4 weeks ago

• AECL’s cloudy future

  
  Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes — Authority: 513
  What if they held a sale and nobody came? One of the arguments for having the government build nuclear reactors in Canada, via a ‘crown corporation,’ is that the private sector won’t have to take the risks given the enormous amounts of capital needed to pay for them. That principle is being called into ...
  5 weeks ago

• Bankers, power, and plutonium: should Canada drop the CANDU?

  
  Canadian energy issues — Authority: 104
  Q uintus Fabius Maximus, the Roman dictator whose ex post facto victory over the original Hannibal has for centuries inspired both admiration and contempt, would applaud the strategies of the major players in the Ontario nuclear reactor competition. The major players the governments of Ontario and Canada. The ...
  5 weeks ago

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