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CANDU was designed for natural uranium with only 0.7% 235 U, so reprocessed uranium with 0.9% 235 U is a comparatively rich fuel. This extracts a further 30–40% energy from the uranium. The Qinshan CANDU reactor in China has used recovered uranium. [10]
Candu Energy Inc. was created in 2011 when parent company SNC-Lavalin purchased the commercial reactor division of Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL), along with the development and marketing rights to CANDU reactor technology. [1] [2] Candu Energy Inc. is located in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. Candu Energy lists its main business lines as:
The United States Atomic Energy Commission s approved this request in 1970, [2] and the feasibility study for the future power plant was completed in 1976. [3] The project began in 1978, the same year as the military nuclear program, [4] and the power plant was designed in Canada by Atomic Energy of Canada Limited in the 1980s. [3]
Land at the Darlington Provincial Park was identified as a potential site in the late 1960s, and Hydro purchased the plot in 1971 as an "energy centre". The first official plans to develop the site for nuclear were approved in 1973, apparently at the personal direction of Conservative Ontario premier Bill Davis without discussion by cabinet. [7]
ZEEP (left), NRX (right) and NRU (back) reactors at Chalk River, 1954. In 1944, approval was given to proceed with the construction of the smaller ZEEP (Zero Energy Experimental Pile) test reactor at Chalk River Nuclear Laboratories in Ontario and on September 5, 1945, at 3:45 p.m., the 10-watt ZEEP achieved the first self-sustained nuclear reaction outside the United States.
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In 2007, Team CANDU, a consortium of Atomic Energy of Canada Limited, Babcock & Wilcox Canada, GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy Canada Inc., Hitachi Canada Ltd and SNC-Lavalin Nuclear Limited [6] began a $2.5 million feasibility study regarding the installation of a new 1,100 MWe Advanced CANDU Reactor at Point Lepreau, to supply power to New England ...
The plant is a CANDU Pressurised Heavy Water Reactor (PHWR). It employs natural uranium (that is, with 0.72% of 235 U) and uses heavy water for cooling and neutron moderation. It has a thermal power of 2,109 MW th , and generates 648 MW e of electricity, with a net output of about 600 MW e , supplying nearly 4.5% of the production of the ...