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Precious medical isotopes could be shipped overseas
Ottawa :: Canada | 14 days ago
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S carce medical isotopes produced by a Canadian reactor could be heading overseas when the aging Chalk River facility returns to service, after a year of repairs that cost taxpayers an estimated $70-million. The NRU reactor in Chalk River is scheduled...
Tags: MDS Nordion, Atomic Energy of Canada, medical isotopes, AECL, Lantheus, NRU, Chalk River, canadians patients, Mr. MacDiarmid, isotopes produced, Canada, Ottawa, Isotope, Nuclear industry in Canada, Chalk River Laboratories, Nuclear technology in Canada, Energy, Multipurpose Applied Physics Lattice Experiment, Atomic Energy of Canada Limited, Nuclear technology, Nuclear medicine, Nuclear accidents, Science and technology in Canada
Canada to Sell Reactor Unit of Energy Firm
Ottawa :: Canada | 3 months ago
Credibility The Canadian government said on Thursday that it would sell the nuclear power reactor unit of Atomic Energy of Canada. The operation emerged from Canada’s participation in the Manhattan Project of World War II but ultimately proved to be one of the government’s...
Tags: government, nuclear power, energy, financial, nuclear, men, power, Atomic Energy of Canada, reactor unit, Canada, Ottawa, Business Finance, Atomic Energy of Canada Limited, CANDU reactor, Energy conversion, Nuclear technology, Science and technology in Canada, Nuclear reactor technology, Areva
Nuclear waste: Canada asks its towns if they'll give it a home
Toronto :: Canada | 3 months ago
Credibility If they were to take out a classified ad, it would read something like this: "Wanted: safe, willing home for 40,000 metric tons of nuclear waste...That's what's on offer from Canada's Nuclear Waste Management Organization, the entity charged with finding...
Tags: Atlantic Canada, Atomic Energy of Canada, NWMO, nuclear power, New Brunswick, Point Lepreau, NB Power Nuclear, Hydro Quebec, Nevada, power plant, Canada, Toronto
Canada averts global isotope shortage
Toronto :: Canada | about 1 year ago
Credibility Days away from a worldwide radioactive isotope shortage caused by the shutdown of a Canadian reactor, atomic officials said Monday it was back on line. The 51-year-old Atomic Energy of Canada reactor at Chalk River, Ontario, was shut down for scheduled...
Tags: medical isotope, Chalk River, Atomic Energy of Canada, nuclear reactor, Ontario, Health Canada, isotope shortage
MDS suing Atomic Energy of Canada for $1.6-billion
Toronto :: Canada | about 1 year ago
Credibility EDT Life sciences company MDS Inc. Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. and the federal government for $1.6-billion and taking the crown corporation to arbitration over its decision not to bring new reactors on stream to produce medical isotopes that MDS sells.
Tags: Atomic Energy of Canada, MDS Inc
Canada scraps new medical reactor, isotopes safe
Ottawa :: Canada | about 1 year ago
Credibility Canada said on Friday it was scrapping work on a trouble-plagued nuclear reactor designed to produce medical isotopes but vowed to maintain output by continuing to use an older reactor. A shut-down of the 50-year-old reactor at the Chalk River plant late...
Tags: medical isotope, Atomic Energy of Canada, nuclear reactor, Chalk River, isotope reactor, old reactor
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