AECL’s uncertain future ushers in unrest for Canada’s nuclear industry

Canada's CANDU technology is world famous for quality and safety. Why we would be breakup up AECL to sell for a pittance is beyond me. This is an area Canada is a world leader -- we should be building on our strengths and not throwing them away:

From the Globe

Ottawa’s delay in its bid to sell Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. is having a corrosive effect on Canada’s nuclear industry, with highly trained workers being idled for lack of contracts.

SNC-Lavalin Group Inc. remains in the hunt for the Crown-owned AECL, industry sources said Tuesday. But the Montreal-based engineering company is the sole remaining bidder after Ontario-based Bruce Power indicated to its employees that it would not be involved in the auction, which Ottawa formally launched 14 months ago.

But there is growing frustration that the Harper government has left the future ownership of AECL in doubt for years, undermining the company’s effort to sell new reactors to Ontario and drum up additional global business.