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	Atomic Energy of Canada Limited - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In addition, AECL manufactures nuclear medicine radioisotopes for supply to MDS Nordion in Ottawa, Canada, and is the world's largest supplier of Molybedenum-99 for diagnostic tests, and Cobalt-60 for cancer therapy.
		AECL traces its heritage to the Second World War when a joint Canadian-British nuclear research laboratory was established in Montreal in 1942, under the National Research Council of Canada to develop a design for a nuclear reactor.
		In 1952 AECL was formed by the government with a mandate to develop peaceful uses of nuclear energy.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Atomic_Energy_of_Canada_Limited (1413 words)

	An Investigation of Therac-25 Accidents - I
		AECL took advantage of the computer's abilities to control and monitor the hardware and decided not to duplicate all the existing hardware safety mechanisms and interlocks.
		AECL produced the first hardwired prototype of the Therac-25 in 1976, and the completely computerized commercial version was available in late 1982.
		In addition, AECL altered the software so that the computer checked for "in transit" status of the switches to keep further track of the switch operation and the turntable position, and to give additional assurance that the switches were working and the turntable was moving.
	courses.cs.vt.edu /~cs3604/lib/Therac_25/Therac_1.html (3797 words)

	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Heavy water (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL) design of power reactor requires large quantities of heavy water to act as a neutron moderator and coolant.
		AECL ordered two heavy water plants which were built and operated in Atlantic Canada at Glace Bay (by Deuterium of Canada Limited) and Port Hawkesbury, Nova Scotia (by General Electric Canada).
		Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL) is currently researching other more efficient and environmentally benign processes for creating heavy water.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /Heavy_water (1560 words)

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		Nor does AECL discuss the long-term impacts resulting from the experiences analysed, despite instructions that its analysis should include "evaluation of the changes or impacts, over appropriate time periods, that could be viewed directly or indirectly as having resulted from activities or aspects of the major projects selected as analogs" (Guidelines, 47-48).
		AECL's reluctance to admit that the public could well be uniquely terrified by the prospect of living near a high-level nuclear waste repository sharply contrasts with its discussion in Social Aspects of the uniqueness of nuclear waste.
		AECL should be directed to connect these two issues, and also to address the issue of evolving standards in its discussion of alternatives to the concept that delay burial.
	www.energyprobe.org /energyprobe/reports/submission1.htm (17977 words)

	Fatal Dose - Radiation Deaths linked to AECL Computer Errors
		AECL had submirred its CAP on June 13, 1986, and then revised it twice before the end of the year to satisfy the FDA's increasingly stringent demands.
		AECL faxed me a statement approved by their lawyers that was to be their definitive answer to questions about the Therac- 25 accidents.
		The AECL statement read, "The article in Computer magazine does not in places accurately describe the events or give appropriate credit to the fast response of AECL Medical at the time the accidents occurred." I telephoned Frech to ask AECL to be more specific about which parts of Leveson's and Turner's article were inaccurate.
	www.ccnr.org /fatal_dose.html (5034 words)

	Nuclear Sunset: Economic Costs of the Canadian Nuclear Industry
		AECL initially decided that the reactor would be shut down permanently in 1995, and that until that time, it would continue to provide back-up isotope production for the NRU for periods of ten weeks per year.
		AECL has continued to operate the NRU despite clear evidence that refurbishment is urgently needed to reduce worker exposure; radioactive emissions to the environment; and the risk of another serious accident.
		AECL has prepared a ten-year plan to address its decommissioning activities, at a preliminary estimated cost of $300 million, and has said that "a significant portion of this $300 million" will be incurred over the next decade.
	www.ccnr.org /sunset1.html (20015 words)

	Exporting Disaster
		AECL manager Irwin Rummel admitted that he was aware that army conscripts were used as unskilled labour on the site, but dismissed reports of "slave" labour.{152} In 1989, in an attempt to speed up construction at Cernavoda, Ceausescu increased the work force 5,000 to more than 14,000.
		AECL staff had condoned the situation for many years, and claim that in 1988 they had threatened to pull out of the project.{174} AECL's resolve was never tested however, since the 1989 revolt intervened, and the project was subsequently restructured.
		AECL contracts amounted to $950 million, of which $450 million went to Korean subcontractors, with about $500 million coming to AECL and Canadian suppliers.{196} As compared to the Wolsong-2 deal two years earlier, the percentage of Canadian content (in dollar terms) of the Wolsong-3 and -4 deal was about 40% less.
	www.cnp.ca /issues/exporting-disaster.html (18046 words)

	INTRODUCTION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		One of the original conditions for AECL moving to Manitoba in the 1960's was an expansion of that same Physics Department.
		AECL again extended economic enticements by announcing that ten to twenty percent of the ten million dollar, proposed fifteen year-long project, would be channelled into the local economy.
		AECL's research agreement with the Government of Ontario seemed to be taking on less and less significance as eastern Manitoba was rapidly become the focal point of Canada's nuclear waste geological research.
	www.web.net /~robbins/omni2.htm (17167 words)

	The AECL
		Before joining AECL, Bock, a Saskatchewan native, worked for the Saskatchewan government developing that province's nuclear policies: "Saskatchewan is not one of the wealthiest provinces, but we do have the world's richest uranium resources.
		He has now been with AECL for ten years mostly in the marketing/sales department, "I didn't grew up within the company," he says.
		As it turned out, China moved much faster than the others, to the point where AECL was involved in pursing a project.
	www.scottmurray.com /aecl.htm (1633 words)

	Joys of Quebec (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		AECL was to own and operate it, and the hospital would pay the heating bill.
		AECL had already spent enough time and tax dollars trying to convince an increasingly skeptical public about the "merits" of its plans to permanently bury its lethal radioactive garbage.
		As the proponent, AECL was required to provide these funds, but the amounts were pitifully small, especially when judged against AECL's own public relations expenditures, the costs of the underground burial concept, and possible future nuclear waste dumps.
	www.web.net /~robbins/omni3.htm (16615 words)

	The Canadian Nuclear FAQ - Dr. Jeremy Whitlock
		The FAQ's and their answers are compiled by the author, and do not necessarily represent the official views of Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. (AECL), the Canadian Nuclear Society (CNS), nor any other component of the Canadian nuclear industry.
		Unless noted otherwise, images are from public literature published by AECL, Ontario Power Generation Inc. (formerly Ontario Hydro), and other members of the Canadian nuclear industry.
		He is a reactor physicist at Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd.'s (AECL) Chalk River Laboratories, a Past President of the Canadian Nuclear Society (CNS) and a member of the Board of Directors of both the CNS and American Nuclear Society (ANS).
	www.nuclearfaq.ca (1147 words)

	Dominion Weblog: December 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		For ten years, Atomic Energy of Canada Limited described and defended their "geological disposal concept" in a federal environmental assessment review.
		The AECL "concept" was of an underground repository 500 to 100 metres below the surface, using either titanium or copper containers, in canisters either the size of a room or small enough to fit in boreholes in the floor of a rock cavern.
		It would be in the Canadian Shield, and almost certainly in northern Ontario (all the maps showed northern Ontario, but the nuclear industry also gave signals that they were open to offers from elsewhere - from anywhere!)
	www.dominionpaper.ca /weblog/2005/12 (2985 words)

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