Chalk River poised to resume production
Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. says it expects to have the Ontario reactor back up and running this month.
The 53-year-old National Research Universal reactor supplied a third of the worldÂ’s medical isotopes until AECL shut it down in May 2009.
The shutdown came after scientists found a pinhole-sized radioactive water leak.
What was originally supposed to be a month-long shutdown has dragged on for more than a year.
Doctors have been scrambling to make do with an erratic supply of medical isotopes to diagnose cancer and heart ailments.
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