[cdn-nucl-l] NRU Delayed by a month

[Andrew Daley <daley.andrew@gmail.com>]

QUESTION:

 

How long would it take to procure/ fabricate/ install a new aluminum vessel for this reactor?  Just a ballpark figure would do... it's going to be ~ 1 year for the (apparently) very comoplicted repair work... would it have been wise (maybe ion hindsight) top just replace the damn tank (as, I understand, it is designed to do?)

 

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN2822142420100128?type=marketsNews

 

Chalk River nuclear reactor restart delayed

8:42am EST

TORONTO, Jan 28 (Reuters) - Restart of the Chalk River nuclear reactor has been pushed into April after welding problems at the facility delayed repairs, its operator Atomic Energy of Canada said.

The reactor, which supplies a third of the world's medical isotopes, was shut down in May after a small leak of heavy water was found.

The facility was originally scheduled to return to service sometime in March.

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