Chalk River — “The recently signed Nuclear Research agreement between Canada and the United States will benefit the 2,800 local employees of Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL),|” stated Cheryl Gallant, Renfrew-Nipissing-Pembroke MP. “One cannot talk about health, energy security, sustainability and environmental responsibility without acknowledging the role nuclear has to play, now and in the future. Only by supporting the work of the women and men at CNL will Canada be able to continue to refer to our nation as an energy superpower. I am proud of the commitment by our Federal Conservative Government to science, research and development demonstrated by this agreement.”
Canadian Nuclear Laboratories is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL).
The Implementing arrangement signed recently in Washington, D.C. between U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz and Natural Resources of Canada Minister Greg Rickford for an agreement among the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), the Department of Natural Resources of Canada (NRCan) and Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL) will increase collaboration in the area of civilian nuclear energy research and development (R&D), noted MP Gallant.
Through the International Nuclear Energy Research Initiative, the Implementing Arrangement establishes a framework for research and development collaboration between the United States and Canada aimed at improving the cost, safety, efficiency and proliferation resistance of nuclear energy systems in the civilian sector, she explained. The Implementing Arrangement signed provides for technical areas of collaboration in nuclear safety, reactor lifetime management, advanced reactor technologies, nuclear materials and fuels, modeling and simulation, and used fuel recycling and disposition technologies, she said.
“The Canadian nuclear industry has received unprecedented levels of support from our Federal Government,” stated MP Gallant. “That support is made possible through the efforts of their local Member of Parliament and a government that is not constrained by false information that we hear from some elements of the foreign-funded environmental lobby. I know how important the jobs are at CNL to the Upper Ottawa Valley and the families of the workers. The signing of this agreement continues a long and productive history of Canada-United States collaboration on a wide range of energy issues and shared interests in greater energy security and sustainability, and environmental responsibility.”
