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• Want to buy a used reactor company from Canada?

  Harper government offers AECL to the highest bidder After a series of public setbacks, Atomic Energy Limited Canada (AECL) has come to the end of the road. This week the government of Canada put the crown corporation up for sale to the highest bidder. The question is whether anyone will buy it. In 2009 AECL lost any shred of having a viable future when it could not close a deal on its home ground of... Posted Dec 18 2009, 09:12 AM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: CANDU, AECL, Lisa Raitt

• Where’s the focus on AECL’s future?

  A Canadian think tank says it knows – there isn’t one Atomic Energy Canada Ltd. ( AECL ) has not had an easy time over the past several years. Despite record levels of financial support from the central government, it has managed to repeatedly disrupt North American medical isotope supplies with unplanned outages at the now 50-year old Chalk River reactor. Record cost over-runs at the Port Lepreau... Posted Dec 02 2009, 05:35 AM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: AECL, Ron Banerjee, CIGI

• AECL’s cloudy future

  What if they held a sale and nobody came? One of the arguments for having the government build nuclear reactors in Canada, via a ‘crown corporation,’ is that the private sector won’t have to take the risks given the enormous amounts of capital needed to pay for them.  That principle is being called into question.  Atomic Energy Canada Limited ( AECL ) is facing the prospect of being broken... Posted Nov 01 2009, 07:26 PM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: AECL, Canada, nuclear blogs, atomic energy of canada limited, recators, atomic

• Who’s really ‘dysfunctional’ in Canada?

  Harper government and Ontario province dig themselves into holes with AECL as the shovel Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper may come to regret  his blunt language reported in the Economist June 18 in which his spokesman called Atomic Energy Canada Limited (AECL) “dysfunctional.”  The insulting language, which will undoubtedly affect at least 30,000 votes in Ontario for the next election... Posted Jul 04 2009, 04:53 PM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: AECL, Canada, atomic energy of canada limited

• AECL’s destiny to be decided at Darlington?

  A $15 billion project and future participation in global nuclear markets hang in the balance Atomic Energy Canada Limited ( AECL ) is part of one of three mega-consortiums which have submitted bids for the rights to build two new reactors, with options for two more, in the Toronto suburb of Darlington , Ontario. The project is worth at least $15 billion and has attracted French nuclear giant Areva... Posted Mar 08 2009, 11:36 AM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: AECL, Canada, Darlington

• Is AECL’s destiny to be decided at Darlington?

  A $15 billion project and future participation in global nuclear markets hang in the balance Atomic Energy Canada Limited ( AECL ) is part of one of three mega- consortiums which have submitted bids for the rights to build two new reactors, with options for two more, in the Toronto suburb of Darlington , Ontario. The project is worth at least $15 billion and has attracted French nuclear giant Areva... Posted Mar 08 2009, 12:49 AM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: Areva, AECL, Darlington

• GE-Hitachi pulls out of Ontario bidding

  Company still has a long-term relationship with AECL The Toronto Star reports that GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy told the Ontario government it will not bid on construction of a new nuclear power plant in the province. There are still a lot of decisions to be made. It isn't over until the fat lady sings. The decision shortens the list of qualified bidders to three - Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd., France's... Posted Apr 09 2008, 03:44 PM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: AECL, Bruce Power, Ontario, GE-Hitachi

• AECL takes a bow

  A four way competition in the UK is down to three Atomic Energy of Canada announced that it is pulling out of the four way competition for sales of new reactors in the UK's massive new build of nuclear energy power stations.  According to wire service reports , the Canadian state-owned firm informed U.K. nuclear regulators it will withdraw its Advanced CANDU Reactor, the ACR-1000 , from the... Posted Apr 05 2008, 01:36 AM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: AECL

• Bruce Power doubles its bet in Alberta

  New customers and limits on natural gas for tar sands region may make the difference Bloomberg wire service reports that Bruce Power , the only non- government owner of a Canadian nuclear plant, filed an application to prepare a site for the first nuclear power plant in Alberta. The wire service reported that the plant would have as many as four reactors and generation capacity of up to 4,000 megawatts... Posted Mar 14 2008, 06:49 AM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: AECL, Energy Alberta, ACR-1000, Bruce Power

• Canada posts the "for sale" sign at AECL

  Is the reactor group a marketable item? The future of Atomic Energy Canada Limited ( AECL ), a crown corporation, is in a state of flux according to a series of terrific news reports by the Globe & Mail. The newspaper reports that the government of Canada has put a "for sale" sign out on the nuclear energy organization which has been in business as a state-owned entity since 1952. Before... Posted Mar 01 2008, 01:09 PM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: AECL, Chalk River, ACR1000

• ACR1000 slated for New Brunswick province

  Go ahead for reactor depends on the financial future of AECL The Toronto Globle & Mail reports that a consortium of private sector companies is teaming up with Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. (AECL) to finance and build an ACR1000 reactor in New Brunswick. It will be a test of a new ownership model for Canadian nuclear plants. It also would involve first-of-a-kind construction of a reactor which is... Posted Feb 10 2008, 12:00 AM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: AECL, Port Lepreau, New Brunswick, ACR1000

• Isotope maker restarts after controversy

  CEO resigns following a global medical meltdown Hat tip to Ruth Sponsler at We Support Lee Users of nuclear isotopes worldwide can breathe easier this week following action by the Canadian parliament to re-start AECL's 50-year old Chalk River , Ontario, reactor. It is the source of more than half of the medical isotopes used in North America. The plant had been shut down by the Canadian Nuclear... Posted Dec 16 2007, 07:39 PM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: AECL, medical isotopes, Chalk River

• Abstract - Reactors Set for Alberta Tar Sands

  Energy Alberta Reaches for the Brass Ring By Dan Yurman, Contributing Reporter Fuel Cycle Week V6 N245 September 11, 2007 Energy Alberta, an entrepreneurial merchant utility, said in late August that it had filed an application with the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission to build a nuclear power plant in Alberta that would be fully operational in 10 years. The firm, which is based in Calgary, Alberta... Posted Sep 12 2007, 09:36 AM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: AECL, Energy Alberta, tar sands, ACR-1000

• AECL Plans Eight New Reactors by 2020

  Atomic Energy of Canada to Build More Than Eight Reactors by 2020 Bloomberg wire service reports Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd., the only maker of power plants that don't need enriched uranium, plans to build more than eight reactors by 2020 as orders pick up after two-decades of suspended animation. The Canadian builder aims to expand in countries where it has already completed plants, including China... Posted Sep 08 2007, 11:42 PM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: CANDU, AECL