Musings of the Technical Bard

The government of Canada has finally come to an intelligent idea: selling the CANDU business of AECL.  This is the right thing to do – because there is no reason for the government to be in the business of developing this technology, nor trying to sell and support the CANDU reactors around the world.  Free-enterprise can do a better job of any industrial activity, and there is nothing particularly strategic about having a “Canadian” nuclear technology.  If the CANDU technology is as good as some people claim, it should be able to compete on the world stage without assistance from the Canadian taxpayer.