GE-Hitachi forms uranium enrichment partnership

Great. Does that mean Corporations will be next to have The Bomb?

 

Actually, Canadian uranium companies, should I say Crown Corporations, have had a long history in the development of nuclear weapons. A surprising amount of uranium for Little Boy came from Canada.

The gaseous diffusion method of enrichment, resulting in uranium hexaflouride, was invented at McGill University. Indeed, many important advances in processing plutonium occured in Canada, not the US

Canada's Role in the Atomic Bomb Programs of the US, UK, France & India

 

Off topic a little, but Does Canada have nuclear weapons?

 

Not nuclear bombs. Nuclear power. A sign that big corporations see nuclear power as increasingly important in the future--as it probably has to be. The corporations are ahead of the politicians on alternative energy and reduced carbon. Their survival depends on it.

 

Not now. In the 1960's Canada had a handful, built in the US, for defense purposes. They were returned in the early 1970's

Of course, Canada helped develop and build a lot of thermonuclear weapons. Oddly enough, a lot of Canadians are unaware of that, or prefer not to know of it

I personally like the CANDU reactor design. It doesn't require such highly enriched uranium like other designs, it's automatically a "breeder" reactor and extremely efficient.

CANDU Reactors

After the initial uranium fuel cycle, the CANDU can run on thorium, which is far more plentiful and cheaper than uranium. Of course, being a breeder reactor, there is a lot of plutonium involved. Yes, some of that plutonium ended up in American, British, and French nuclear weapons

A group of Canadian scientists involved with the CANDU program started the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility. Their website is interesting reading to say the least.

The Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility

I have no doubt that nuclear power is needed to meet future energy needs. As folks demand more gadgets, and more comfort, and refuse to take any responsibility to moderate their energy consumption, we have no choice but to build more nuclear power plants