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Jan10-Offprint-Ryan.pdf

Last May, a thunderstorm caused a power trip at Chalk River Laboratories in Ontario and during the re-start inspection, a heavy water leak was discovered in the reactor vessel. The National Research Universal (NRU) reactor has been down ever since. Canadian neutron scatterers have been without a home base for ten months and tens of thousands of patients around the world have gone without critical diagnostic procedures and essential treatments. Finally the issue of a replacement for our 52 year old research reactor is in the news and at the centre of government.