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Hard-won nuclear expertise should not be thrown away

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Following World War II, scientists and engineers in Canada turned their minds to the development of nuclear power for peaceful purposes. This article is over a year old, and the information within may be out of date. China's Qinshan nuclear power station includes two CANDU 6 reactors that were built on schedule and under budget. About 10 per cent of the world's more than 440 nuclear reactors are CANDUs. Following World War II, scientists and engineers in Canada turned their minds to the development of nuclear power for peaceful purposes. Under C.D. Howe, the National Research Council laboratories at Chalk River became part of a new company called Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd., and development of a Canadian nuclear reactor for generating electricity began in earnest. However, unlike the United States, the Soviet Union or Great Britain, Canada was a country of modest industrial capability. Reactors in these other countries were based on the Westinghouse nuclear submarine reactor design of

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