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The Nuclear Industry in Canada

All of Romania's reactors are Canadian-designed.

BACKGROUNDER

A new Canadian-designed nuclear reactor will start operating within five months in Romania. The reactor near the south-east town of Cernavoda will operate at slightly less than half of its 700-megawatt capacity until the end of 2006. It will then operate at full capacity. Romania's other reactor provides about 12 per cent of the country's electricity. The government has also announced plans to complete another two reactors in Cernavoda.

What is CANDU

In Pakistan as well

Soon India?

   

Do some research on the mini nuclear reactor located at RMC (Royal Military College) in Kingston.

I say no more

   

Your choice of wording for the topic is interesting. I would say that the general public would associate the term "nuclear power" with that of a country that has nuclear arms.

Canada on the other hand is the world's largest supplier of uranium and has the largest milling facilities to process into yellow cake for use in nuclear reactos. The CANDU reactor is a technical marvel of nuclear power but due to the negative side effects of the incidents at Three Mile Island and Chernobyl, the nuclear industry in Canada is still suffering.

I am currently aware of the Bruce Power nuclear generating facility in Ontario, but I do not know of many more than that. For the most part we simply mine it, design it, and sell it out.

Third world countries are turning to nuclear power now to as the price per KW of power is the second cheapest in the world (second only to hydro, which is not always accessible). The inital capital costs of nuclear are high, but after that your value is amazing.

Check out Cameco Corp. if you want to know about Canada's uranium and nuclear power industries.

   

Someone tell me the difference of being a 'Nuclear power' and having nuclear capabilities. Does Canada have nuclear weapons? No, do they need them? Sure as hell not (same could be said for anyone *cough, cough*). What people don't believe is that Canada is capable of making nuclear weapons. Seems to be a major error in countries thinking Canada as helpless. Due to the nature of this country, are people willing to give up their health care dollars for some useless nuclear weapons? Well, I sure as hell wouldn't.

   

But why do we store a large part of the US nuclear, surplus arsenal?

   

Without Canada, the US wouldn't have had the nuclear arsenal that they have. The US has some leech mines for uranium but for the most part it is low grade and not suitable for weapons. The USSR has uranium reserves that may rival Canada's (if they ever gain the capital to explore it out). They made their own nukes but the US probably would have had to rely heavily on Canada for theirs.

Canada could churn out nukes like Big Macs if they wanted to; thank goodness we don't.

   

It's simply not part of our doctrine.

   

We do?

   

Yeah, winters at home are enough of a bitch, do we really want to responsible for a nuclear winter?

   

Canada should be a nuclear power--weapons, that is. The technology is already sixty years old. It gets easier every year, and Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty or not, in another sixty just about everyone will have them. I don't want to be the underdog in a war against Pakistan or North Korea, nor do I want to rely on the US fro our defence.

   

Yep, and I'm sure you will find a viable reason for using these nuclear weapons which would waste millions of dollars... Of course, everybody should have nuclear weapons because...hey, it's the IN thing to do and if your not hip, you get destroyed...like the whole world. Lets have every nation aiming at each other simply because they have nuclear weapons...that solves everything.

   

Not to mention waste millions of lives. No one is going to get rid of nuclear weapons any time soon. Maybe after a nuclear holocaust we'll consider, but not before. It sucks, adn twenty years ago if I knew this was going ot be my position I might have bonked myself repeatedly on the head. But my prognosis for the world over the next fifty years is not good. Things, I think, are going to get ugly.

   

Still, shouldn't the world not build nuclear weapons but destroy them? Was that not the point of the treaties? Limit them? Eventual destruction? You said yourself you want Canada to be a nuclear power and not depend on the US for defense. You think building a nuclear arsenal will help defend us? I don't think so and it would only cause more concern and make you more of a target. Concerning nuclear weapons, everything is always speculation but do we really need to raise tension more than it already is?

   

Peace sells and clearly the world is buying. Energy is going to push the Canadian dollar above the $.90 level and some say it may even top the USD as soon as December of 2006. Oil and gas are the major players but coal and uranium will also play their part. Invest in Canada, the rest of the world is.

   

scare the living shit out of the yanks if we did. why do we still ship uranium south of the border for america to use as weapons anyways?

   

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