While everyone else is running away from nuclear power thanks to Fukujima, the Canadians are quietly going ahead with their CANDU reactors. They are designed to fail safe, i.e., a power failure simply shuts them down. They burn un-enriched uranium and could even burn the spent fuel from our high pressure reactors. India is even experimenting with using thorium in the CANDUs they bought. I guess it must be the NIH factor.
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Last edited by merrylander; 10-21-2012 at 09:53 AM.
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