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CANDU

< CAN(ada) D(euterium) U(ranium)
DCHP-2 (Oct 2016)

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n. & adj. — Industry, proprietary

a type of nuclear power reactor.

Type: 1. Origin — The first CANDU reactor went into operation in 1962. These reactors, invented and built in Canada, have been sold world-wide (see Canadian Nuclear Association reference). The abbreviation is most commonly used in Canada (see Chart 1).
See also Gage-5, s.v. "CANDU", and ITP Nelson, s.v. "CANDU reactor".

Quotations

1959
By 1964, Lewis believes the Canadian CANDU reactor will produce power at 4.75 to 5 mills a kilowatt hour.
1960
The new CANDU reactor will be installed in this building.
1977
The sordid soap opera has gone through the Skyshop affair, the dredging contracts, Oullette and Drury with judicial interference, Candu reactor, [...] the Transport Commission and others.
1989
The Ceausescu government planned it as the first of 12 or more Candu reactors intended to solve a chronic energy shortage in Romania.
1990
Against this backdrop, the second sale to South Korea seems relatively benign. Its present government has a better human rights record than the one that bought its first Candu reactor, which has a successful operating record.
2007
The $2.5 -million study, carried out by a group of nuclear industry companies, is widely expected to endorse construction of a second Candu reactor at the New Brunswick site.
2008
In Toronto yesterday, AECL and its partners in the Team Candu group held a news conference to tout the economic benefits that would result from Ontario buying new Candu reactors.
2008
But organizations like the Canadian Nuclear Association have argued the plutonium used in CANDU reactors isn't weapons-grade.
2015
The nuclear reactor at the centre of the Ottawa Valley facility, operating mainly for scientific research and discovery since 1957, is scheduled to shut down in 2018. The money-losing commercial arm that built 20 Candu nuclear reactors in Canada and exported a dozen others around the world was sold to SNC-Lavalin in 2011.

References

Images

Image 1: Two <i>CANDU</i> reactors at the Qinshan Nuclear Power Plant in China. Source: Wikimedia Commons. Photo: Atomic Energy of Canada Limited

Image 1: Two CANDU reactors at the Qinshan Nuclear Power Plant in China. Source: Wikimedia Commons. Photo: Atomic Energy of Canada Limited

Chart 1: Internet Domain Search, 23 Aug. 2012

Chart 1: Internet Domain Search, 23 Aug. 2012