Sentences with phrase «civilian research reactors»
Dozens of civilian research reactors have closed or converted from HEU — uranium enriched to at least 20 % of the fissile isotope U-235 — to safer low enriched uranium (LEU), including 28 since 2009.
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The Government of Canada could build on this momentum to develop an expanded MoU on civilian nuclear technology co-operation that includes research in pressurized heavy water reactor technology, nuclear medicine and other areas discussed by the prime ministers.
Without the federal government capping nuclear industry liability (i.e. Price Anderson Act), signing contracts to take custody and dispose of spent nuclear fuel (i.e. Nuclear Waste Policy Act), bankrolling civilian and military atomic research and development for light water and breeder reactors (i.e. Atomic Energy Act), and other programs, the industry would not exist.