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To: hmaly who wrote (55364)	9/15/2001 12:51:47 PM
From: John Stopforth	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

hmaly Re:Candu is a light water reactor, in that water is the cooling medium Wrong, Candu is heavy water nuclear reactor. Heavy water or Deuterium is used as a moderator in Candu reactors. Candu was developed in Chalk River, Ontario in 1946. Canada was one of the three allies that worked on the Manhatten project, U.S.A., Great Britain and Canada in that order of importance. Unfortunately, uranium used in the first atom bomb probably came from Radium City in the North West Territories. Uranium in the late 1930's was a by-product of radium production, radium used in watch dials. John