Canada Ignored Global Efforts To Ensure Isotope Supply

But they reportedly can't pry information out of Ottawa-based MDS Nordion, which provides about half the world's supply of isotopes, made at Ontario's Chalk River nuclear reactor. "The one problem we have is that we never get information from the Canadians," Kevin Charlton of the Netherlands' Nuclear Research and Consultancy Group told the CMAJ. The Chalk River reactor, owned by Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd., was shut down for almost a month in November and December, sparking a critical shortage of medical isotopes used in diagnosing and treating cancer and heart ailments. ... http://www.cbc.ca/cp/health/080204/x020432A.html

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