How will the Cons get out of this one?

On August 22, a nuclear reactor in Netherlands went off-line for maintenance. This action put the amount of radio isotopes in the world at a deficient level. Upon learning of the outage, the mighty-mite Natural Resources Minister Gary Lunn immediately contacted the equally effective Health Minister Tony Clement to implement a protocol for notification and information sharing among AECL, Natural Resources Canada and Health Canada that came into place after the December 2007 shortage of medical isotopes occurred after the MDS Nordion shutdown.  The Canadian people will not be without their isotopes!

But, Oh Oh, on August 27 the NRU at AECL also went offline, as did three additional reactors across the world.

Greg Weston of the National Bureau reports it this way, "Five nuclear reactors in Canada, Europe and South Africa produce almost all of the world's radioactive materials -- called "isotopes" -- that are used in medical scans and cancer treatments.As of late yesterday, all of the reactors were shut down for reasons unrelated to one another -- what one Canadian official called a "perfect storm" of bad timing and technical mishaps."

The latest response from Canada's Lamest Government (TM)?  Nada.  I expect that they are behind closed doors trying to figure out how to blame this on the Liberals and how to use the issue to be seen as forcing them into a fall election.

Hypocrites.