Reply #4: OK if 200 words are too much for your short attention span... Think "Economic Hitman"

[kristopher]

...AECL has, with the support of the Canadian Export Credit Agency, undertaken an aggressive marketing campaign to sell reactors abroad and to date 12 units have been exported to South Korea (4), Romania (2), India (2), China (2), Pakistan (1), Argentina (1). The export market remains a crucial component of the AECL’s reactors development program. In September 2004, a Memorandum of Understanding was signed with the National Nuclear Safety Administration of China. This MoU will in part facilitate the development of AECL’s Advanced Candu Reactors. Canada is the world’s largest producer of uranium and in 2008 produced about 21% of the global total. p. 91

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The Cernavoda nuclear power plant in Romania hosts the only Candu (Canadian designed) reactors in Europe. In 2008 they provided 17.5% of the electricity in the country. The power plant was started under the regime of Nicolae Ceausescu and initially was to house five units. Construction was started in 1980 on all the reactors, in part using funding from the Canadian Export Development Corporation, but this was scaled back in the early 1990s to focus on unit 1. Eventually this was completed in 1996 at an estimated cost of around US$2.2 billion and nearly a decade late. The second unit, also completed with foreign financial assistance, a $140 million Canadian loan and a €223 million Euratom loan, was connected to the grid in August 2007 - after 27 years of construction. p. 110

The World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2009 With Particular Emphasis on Economic Issues

Lead author:
Mycle Schneider is an independent international consultant on energy and nuclear policy based in
Paris. He founded the Energy Information Agency WISE-Paris in 1983 and directed it until 2003.
Since 1997 he has provided information and consulting services to the Belgian Energy Minister,
the French and German Environment Ministries, the International Atomic Energy Agency,
Greenpeace, the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, the Worldwide Fund
for Nature, the European Commission, the European Parliament's Scientific and Technological
Option Assessment Panel and its General Directorate for Research, the Oxford Research Group,
and the French Institute for Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety. Since 2004 he has been in
charge of the Environment and Energy Strategies lecture series for the International MSc in Project
Management for Environmental and Energy Engineering Program at the French Ecole des Mines in
Nantes. In 1997, along with Japan's Jinzaburo Takagi, he received the Right Livelihood Award,
also known as the “Alternative Nobel Prize”.



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