Nuclear Reactor Leaking... 'Many' Deaths Predicted..

The Chalk River Nuclear Reactor in Ontario has been shut down with a leak... Because of this - many deaths are being predicted - but not from the radiation - Ironically, it will be from the "Lack" of radiation...

This particular reactor produces 2/3 of the radio-active isotope MO-99 (Molybdenum-99) which is used in more than 16 million CRITICAL medical tests every year...

The Reactor has a service life of from 40 to 50 years and the reactor is already 52 years old. Canada is looking at shutting down the reactor permanently and that has created a severe shortage of the isotope.

The isotope is used to take pictures of hearts, lungs, kidneys, brains, etc and is a multi-billion dollar industry that has been severely affected - only 10% of the normal inventory of the isotope is currently available.

To make matters worse, the Dutch reactor that produces most of the remaining MO-99 shut down for a month for needed repairs and needs to shut down again in the very near future for even more maintenance...

The University of Missouri is currently working to retrofit their reactor to produce the isotope, but is not expected to be up and running until 2012...