Chalk River reactor to be halted until year’s end: sources

By The Staff Global News

Posted April 25, 2011 11:31 pm

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Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. is widely expected to announce Wednesday that the rusting, leaking nuclear reactor at Chalk River, Ont., source of nearly half of the world’s medical isotopes, will be offline at least through 2009 while the Crown corporation repairs the unit