CAND U say RBMK

Canada cannot afford uranium enrichment facilities. POD: In 1960 Canada decides that heavy water is also far to expensive (hundreds of $ per kilogram) to use in a reactor. Facing the need to build a reactor with no isotope separation at all they use a cheap moderator, one of the oldest: Graphite.

This makes for a design similar to an RBMK, although it is likely that it will be significantly smaller and have computer control. It will also be completely encapsulated as it won't be so tall that it cannot be completely covered.

But it can make lots of plutonium, and it is much cheaper then the OTL CANDU. Given that India used a CANDU for their first nuclear weapon materials what happens to nonproliferation in a world where Canada sells a very useful source of plutonium to anyone with the money to buy it?
 
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