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The federal government faces calls to begin enriching uranium. Should it?
(www.theglobeandmail.com)
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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.
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.