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[-] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca -1 points 9 hours ago

Ontario already refines uranium for nuclear reactor use. Blind River and Port Hope.

Maybe you guys should read the article? Uranium enrichment refers to concentrating plutonium to make bombs.

[-] nyan@lemmy.cafe 1 points 6 hours ago

Granted, I don't know what this specific article says because I refuse to run Javascript that I don't absolutely need to, but most nuclear reactors also need at least slightly enriched uranium. The older-gen CANDU reactors currently running in Ontario are a rare exception to that, and get around it by using heavy water (deuterium oxide) rather than normal water as a moderator. I'm not aware of any more recent reactor designs that make use of heavy water, and I expect there's a reason for that. So new reactors mean enriched uranium.

It's a double-edged sword that makes it very difficult to prove that any given uranium enrichment facility is military in purpose.

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