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

  
  Canadian energy issues — Authority: 400
  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 ...
  5 days ago

• Nuclear power: In the crosshairs at a crossroads?

  
  Centre Flow — Authority: 135
  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 ...
  6 days ago

• AECL’s cloudy future

  
  Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes — Authority: 469
  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 ...
  1 week ago

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

  
  Canadian energy issues — Authority: 400
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Is Harper about to privatize AECL?

  
  KenonCanpolitics — Authority: 126
  Obviously AECL is going to cost the public lots of money but no private enterprise is going to buy into AECL unless they get a sweet deal. However, that is probably what Harper would dearly love to arrange. If he is really desperate he could always sell to North Korea or Iran! Hopefully Harper will realise the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Workers want AECL to remain Crown firm

  
  CKA Canadian News — Authority: 507
  Scientists and engineers from the Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. (AECL) were on Parliament Hill on Monday, urging the government to proceed carefully when privatizing the Crown corporation.
  3 weeks ago

• AECL Provides Update On NRU Developments

  
  Nuclear Power Industry News — Authority: 530
  In preparation of the upcoming weld build-up repair, cleaning of the NRU reactor vessel is progressing  - By April Murelio - The following information bulletin is in accordance with Atomic Energy of Canada Limiteds (AECL) ongoing commitment to voluntary public disclosure of events related to the Chalk River ...
  3 weeks ago

• Areva shepherds fuel recycling proposal through U.S. policy minefield

  
  Canadian energy issues — Authority: 400
  T hink big or go home. That used to be the Ontario way: anybody who has looked at Ontario’s three nuclear power plants knows that the people who built them were big thinkers and big doers. No surprise then that the three bidders in the ongoing billion-dollar reactor competition are AECL, Westinghouse, and Areva. And ...
  3 weeks ago

• AECL privatization rolling along?

  
  Impolitical — Authority: 484
  Well, that was quick. In the wake of the news of government commissioned public opinion research demonstrating the public is overwhelmingly against privatization of the Crown nuclear agency, Atomic Energy Canada Limited, the government is signalling it is getting ready to act. A report appeared yesterday: "AECL ...
  3 weeks ago

• Time to rethink the AECL privatization?

  
  Impolitical — Authority: 484
  The diligent CanPolitico has dug up a very interesting poll that Lisa Raitt commissioned (pdf) early this year on the issue of Atomic Energy Canada Limiteds privatization. Recall that the privatization was sprung on us this past spring (pardon the pun) as the Chalk River isotope reactor shutdowns impact was just ...
  4 weeks ago

• Elekta posts healthy Q1 results

  
  emedist.com — Authority: 160
  Swedish oncology firm Elekta reports that demand for its clinical products and services remained strong in the first three months of fiscal year 2010.source : www.auntminnie.com
  8 weeks ago

• Report: Canada considers splitting AECL

  
  emedist.com — Authority: 160
  The Canadian government may divide Atomic Energy of Canada (AECL) into two entities — a research division to oversee the National Research Universal nuclear reactor at Chalk River, Ontario, and a second unit that would include its nuclear reactors designed for power generation.source : www.auntminnie.com
  8 weeks ago

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