WORLD BRIEFING / CANADA
Senior Canadian officials left a binder full of confidential nuclear documents in a television studio and made no attempt to retrieve them, the TV network involved said.
The binder was found in a CTV studio after a visit by Natural Resources Minister Lisa Raitt. CTV, which kept the binder for six days before breaking the news, said documents showed the government would spend far more money on a troubled nuclear reactor than it had acknowledged.
CTV said the documents showed that $66 million more would be spent on the aging Chalk River reactor this year than the government had revealed in its budget. They also listed millions more dollars in supplementary funding to keep government-owned firm Atomic Energy of Canada solvent.
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