Ideas

Isotope Shortage!

1. Have an election. Couldn't hurt!
2. Get the Maple reactors going. If they are good enough for South Korea, they are good enough for us. Our technical expertise is very, very good . We can modify the reactors safely and have them producing at 50% in short order. 50% is more than enough to meet and exceed our ability to supply the world with medical isotopes and smoke detectors. We could always hire KIA to work on them. They make a pretty darn good car, and they have 5-year warranties.
3. Cut the isotopebie thing in halfsies, or foursies.
4. So what if the Americans want to Harper to pull a Diefenbaker and pretend it's the “New Government of Canada” decision to mothball the Maple reactors. Besides, I don't think you can just chuck a reactor like these into Lake Ontario like they did all those Avro Arrows. I'm not counting the Darlington or Pickering nuclear sites. They work differently and they have great security as you can see in the photos I've included..
5. Ask MDS Nordion to forgive the idiocy which is now the AECL head honcho, as she is heavily infused with Harperite 27 -an abnormal element that has an unpredictable political half-life. Exposure causes vast amounts of flip-flopping and finger pointing. Funny that they fire the person who warned them time and again about the state of the reactor, which was her job as head of the CNSC.
6. MDS Nordion, don't sue for money, sue the government to start up the Maple reactors. That, and for a radioactive car in every driveway, just like Atomic Man's and Fallout Boy's. Just for the record, that doesn't mean you can buy AECL either.
7. Did I mention we have two Maple reactors. No waiting! And I just love those cookies.
8. Replace Minister of Natural Resources Lisa Raitt with Bonnie Raitt! Rock On!!
9. Why would a Government want to sell a producing nuclear reactor to the private sector. Let's see? Maybe, huge profits to be realized, if the present ministers get out in time. Cobalt-60 could get a bit pricey if you have to answer to shareholders rather than governmental regulations regarding medical isotopes. The cost to preform the first Cobalt-60 (ala Chalk River) treatment was $50,000. Compare that to the price of radium treatment used at that time at $50,000,000 to preform the same procedure. That's way cheaper and less yucky than leeches.
10. Double up patients on the treatment table. Treat one for a tumour and maybe get some sort of x-ray or g-ray image on Polaroid paper.
11. Have an airlift for patients in time for North Korea's next nuclear bomb test. If a little irradiation helps you get better, then a lot ought to cure you.

I bite the cow yesterday