Chalk River reactor down until end of the year

This is an ongoing problem and its resolution, sexy or not, is getting critical.

OTTAWA_ The Chalk River reactor will be down until the end of year.

Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. says it needs at least that long to figure out how to repair the leaky and aging reactor.

``We are now able to advise that the NRU will not be able to return for service until late 2009,'' company president Hugh MacDiarmid said Wednesday on a conference call.

The 52-year-old reactor supplied a third of the world's medical isotopes until AECL shut it down in mid-May after finding it was leaking radioactive water.

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