The purpose of this study is to describe the Canadian nuclear industry and assess its overall economic impact, specifically to:

- describe the characteristics of the components of the Canadian nuclear industry: uranium mining and processing, electricity generation, fuel fabrication and isotope production, waste management, and research and development;

- outline the economic dimensions of industry components including: value and volume of production, exports, investment and employment; and

- assess the direct and indirect economic impacts of the largest components of the nuclear industry, actual and potential, on the Canadian economy– electricity generation from existing facilities, the construction of a new nuclear generation facility in Canada, and the Canadian content associated with the export of a pair of CANDU nuclear reactors – on the Canadian economy.

The information required to conduct the study was obtained from:

- a literature review of relevant reports and documents;

- companies in the Canadian nuclear industry involved in electricity generation, uranium production and processing, fuel fabrication and isotope production, and research and development; and

- analysis using Statistics Canada’s national and interprovincial Input Output models.