Re: [cdn-nucl-l] $15M

[Chris Fahlman <chrisfahlman@gmail.com>]

Hi,

This business requires a little understanding from the federal
government. If Candus were being built, then AECL would get much more
revenue, and the proportional carrying costs of its staff would go
down.

That few AECL reactors are being sold is a function of market
economics, I suppose, but also federal domestic, and international,
policies. Didn't Canada give the signal that it wasn't prepared to
sell a reactor outside Canada? What kind of owner would limit sales
opportunities of its company (the world market is much bigger than the
Canadian one)? The fact that international reactor sales seem to
require some government grease (in both senses of the word) to get
them moving is just reality. I hope Government doesn't think that by
privitatizing it, it can sit idly by, then give some "market
economics" excuse with AECL on life support. This current government
is not afraid to "get dirty" and lobby Washington and the UN-IPCC for
oil sands interests. No idle sitting for them. It could do the same
for the nuclear industry.

An "all oil-sands, all the time" industrial growth policy would suit
this current government. And I'm very worried that they see a strong,
growing, nuclear energy industry in Ontario as a political threat.

crf