Why did Canada develop its own reactor design?
A. During World War II Canada participated in an Anglo-Canadian-American project to build an atomic bomb. As the Manhattan Project intensified the American cooperation in this technological alliance decreased greatly, leaving the Canadians and British to follow an almost independent path towards the creation of controlled nuclear power. Due to war-time security risks in Britain, the Anglo-Canadian project was located in Canada, and unlike in the Manhattan Project, was centred around the technology of a heavy-water chain reaction for weapons-plutonium production.
