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A historic waste management area at the Canadian Nuclear Laboratories, pictured on May 27, 2019, in Chalk River, Ont. This cutline has been updated and corrected. The previous cutline incorrectly identified this as the proposed site for a near surface disposal facility at the Canadian Nuclear Laboratories campus in Chalk River, Ont. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY BABATUNDE OLATEJU

December 2, 2019

Canada’s nuclear energy industry has a storied history. The industry’s prominent decades spanned the 1940s to the early 1990s and involved the domestic deployment and international export of its flagship technology i.e., the Canada Deuterium Uranium (CANDU) reactor. However, the last three decad...

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