Industry committee  Semiconductor silicon chips have always been hydrogenated to form silicon hydrogen bonds. What happens with deuterium is that instead of using light or normal hydrogen, if you use heavy hydrogen or deuterium, which weighs at a higher atomic mass, there's a unique chemistry that o

Industry committee  Deuterium and particularly the hydroxyl ion with deuterium in it replaces the regular hydroxyl ion in the production of fibre optic cables or fibre optic lines. That allows much more light to pass through. The conventional way of doing it blocks about 30% of the light. If instead

Industry committee  The key thing is that the nuclear demand for deuterium oxide, or heavy water, is growing substantially in countries like India. They're starting up four CANDU-equivalent reactors in 2015 and 2016. They have 10 to 12 more that are being started up in the next eight years. This is

Industry committee  Yes.

Industry committee  Teva just invested $3.2 billion in a California drug company that only does deuterated drugs. It purchases for $3.2 billion a company with almost no revenues. These are the sorts of life science industries in the United States and why they're so powerful, yet this investment is b

Industry committee  Canada was. I think India, by far, now is. India has a fantastic program, but I think India can't produce as much as it needs in the next 10 years. Canada does not produce. The United States does not produce. There is about one drum of deuterium oxide in the United States, in the

Industry committee  I'd say that Canadian Nuclear Laboratories is a pillar of disruptive technology for Canada. We're slowly peeling away the layers of the onion on what those 3,000 scientists and engineers can do in this transition to the GOCO private operator, which is generally going to be a cons