REGINA – Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall is pursuing a plan to go beyond mining uranium and is eyeing the possibility of small nuclear reactor technology.
Wall is looking at a partnership with a private company to research whether a small reactor could fit into the province’s existing power grid.
The Saskatchewan government rejected the idea of allowing a large-scale nuclear plant to be built in December 2009.
Wall says the proposal was turned down because it didn’t make financial sense, not because of political pressure.
He says a small reactor could be part of a bigger agenda that includes nuclear study and nuclear medicine, including PET scans.
A PET scan uses positron emissions to produce three-dimensional images, but Saskatchewan doesn’t have a machine and has to send patients to neighbouring Manitoba.
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