Opposition MPs rapped the government Tuesday about an early-December leak at the Chalk River nuclear plant, about 185 kilometres northwest of Ottawa.
Health Canada has warned doctors to expect a shortage of medical isotopes after an unscheduled shutdown this week at the Chalk River, Ont., nuclear plant that supplies them.
Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. said Friday it won't know until next week how long the Chalk River nuclear reactor that supplies 80 per cent of the world's medical isotopes will be offline.
Green Party Leader Elizabeth May called for a full public inquiry into the conduct of Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. after a further shutdown of its nuclear reactor at Chalk River, Ont.
Officials in charge of Ontario's Chalk River nuclear reactor say they are no closer to knowing when the reactor will be back on line and producing medical isotopes again.
The nuclear reactor at Chalk River, Ont., that usually produces medical isotopes for cancer and heart disease testing could be idled until October or even later, according ...
Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. said Friday that it's stopping development of its two MAPLE reactors at its laboratories in Chalk River, Ont.
Avoiding a situation like the Chalk River shutdown and the subsequent shortage of medical isotopes requires a better balance between public safety and the health of patients, says a report released ...
... is funding research that would provide alternatives to the principal medical isotope produced at Chalk River.”
The Government of Canada is providing $6 million towards this research initiative which ...
Ontario's idled Chalk River nuclear reactor will not be able restart producing medical isotopes until at least next spring, the reactor's operator said Wednesday.
... The most recent extended shortage began in May 2009, when the NRU reactor in Chalk River, Canada—the world's largest reactor that produces Mo-99—went off-line. The situation has ...
The Chalk River nuclear reactor in Ontario doesn’t sell a watt of
electricity. Never has. But when it sprang a leak and shut down
this spring, it threw a multibillion-dollar industry into ...
