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To: Land Shark who wrote (74075)	3/13/2011 10:53:29 AM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 233836

The design features of the AECL reactor, the Candu are not properly understood by our administration. They were developed in Canada over a 50 year period and include sensor, generator, and other rebuilds of contractor stuff that the US reactor experts have never dealt with. Most features of the Candu, even other than the core design and deuterium moderation are unique. The engineers who designed much of the unique features, some 15,000 design components, were never paid except for salary. Now Canada wants to give away their brains and hard labour to people who will look at it like a caveman would look at an Accutron wristwatch. It is a safe bet that the Politicians do not understand that a group of money mavens in a second rate electric company stateside have no clue how to run a Candu or rebuild what goes into it. They get a bunch of dry and dusty plans and ignore all the important stuff. Generator bearing metallurgy and design is as important as core design. Another case of selling our birthright for a mess of pottage. Avro Arrow, Candu good bye. It was nice to know ye. Forgive them for they know not what they do. EC<:-}