So in 1996, Ottawa-based isotope wholesaler MDS Nordion hired AECL to design, construct and run two new reactors and a processing facility.
For almost three years, AECL went through its calculations, but nothing changed: if its model of how the reactor functioned was correct, the PCR should be negative.
他們認為,形成這種局面不是因為AECL未能按其承諾建*應堆,而是核管理機構要求AECL應該信守承諾。
在將近三年中,AECL仔細檢查了楓葉的計算過程,但結果仍然如此:如果它的反應堆運行模式無誤,那麼PCR就應該是負值。
據AECL透露,解決P CR問題的費用無法確定是這一項目被取消的關鍵原因。