The Globe and Mail reports in its Tuesday edition that Ottawa wants to reinvigorate Canada's homegrown Candu reactor and sell more units abroad, according to a strategy for nuclear energy unveiled Monday. The Globe's Mathew McClearn and Marieke Walsh write that the document, dubbed the Nuclear Energy Strategy, the government said Canada could capitalize on a surge of global interest in nuclear power by bolstering the domestic supply chain for the Candu reactor, the Canadian technology used to build and operate nuclear-generating stations in the country since the 1960s. However, the feds emphasized that provinces that pursue new nuclear plants -- the strategy wants 10 new nuclear-generating stations built in the coming decades -- will decide which reactor technologies they wish to build, and mentioned other reactor designs, including Westinghouse Electric's AP1000 and GE Vernova Hitachi's BWRX-300. Still, the Candu was singled out dozens of times in the strategy. The government still owns Candu's intellectual property, but Atomic Energy of Canada's reactor division was sold to AtkinsRéalis in 2011. Although a series of new models were partially developed since the 1990s, those designs were never completed nor constructed.
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