Why was a Chalk River reactor shut down in November 2007, causing a shortage in medical radioisotopes?
(including cut-away diagram of NRU reactor) • See this CNSC backgrounder for more information. • Opinion of Jatin Nathwani, University of Waterloo, published in the Globe and Mail, 2007 December 14: “Ottawa calls it right on Chalk River row”. • Opinion of John Waddington, former Director General of CNSC, published in the Ottawa Citizen, 2007 Dec. 17: “Canada’s safety watchdogs can learn some new tricks”. • Opinion of Jeremy Whitlock (author), published in the Ottawa Citizen, 2007 Dec. 21: “Reactor outage was issue of compliance, not safety”. • Op-Ed of John Waddington, former Director General of CNSC, published in the Ottawa Citizen, 2008 February 8: “Never a real nuclear danger”.
