Canada re-enters nuclear weapons business . . . .

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Canada re-enters nuclear weapons business with small modular reactors

[ http://WWW.HILLTIMES.COM/2020/12/03/CAN ... ORS/274591 ]

By OLE HENDRICKSON DECEMBER 3, 2020

Canada is poised to play a central role in the global nuclear weapons business, much as it did during the Second World War.

Natural Resources Minister Seamus O’Regan is expected to announce, within weeks, his government’s action plan for development of “small modular” nuclear reactors. [ https://www.nrcan.gc.ca/our-natural-res ... plan/21183 ]

SMR developers already control the federally subsidized Chalk River Laboratories and other facilities owned by the Crown corporation, Atomic Energy of Canada Limited. Canada is now poised to play a central role in the global nuclear weapons business, much as it did during the Second World War.

Canada was part of the Manhattan project [ https://nbmediacoop.org/2020/08/06/25798/ ] with the United States and the United Kingdom to produce atomic bombs. In 1943, the three countries agreed [ https://inis.iaea.org/collection/NCLCol ... 762380.pdf ] to build a facility in Canada to produce plutonium for nuclear weapons. Researchers who trained at the Chalk River Laboratories went on to launch weapons programs in the U.K. and France. Chalk River provided plutonium for U.S. weapons until the 1960s. [ https://nuclearsafety.gc.ca/eng/resourc ... opment.cfm ]

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