CREATE also submitted expression of interest in AECL

CREATE also submitted expression of interest in AECL: http://www.futurecrl.ca/CREATE.php?page=news&id=35&showcomments=0 ... the CREATE's vision for the future of Chalk River Labs notably includes a new research reactor replacing the aging NRU reactor: "CREATE focuses on the mission of CRL as a national laboratory and we provide some high-level ideas about what such a model may look like. A major purpose for adopting the vision of CREATE for CRL would be to best leverage the existing assets. Thus, our vision for the Chalk River National Laboratory (CRNL) is described in brief here. A national laboratory mission will affect all existing facilities at CRL and will require investment in upgraded and new infrastructure, including notably a new research reactor. It is expected that this transition process would be done in consultation with potential partners and customers. In parallel, detailed planning for a new multi-purpose reactor for research and other applications in the long-term is needed. Such a reactor would assume and expand the functions of the aging NRU reactor.
The proposed CRNL will be much more outward-looking, collaborating, partnering and impacting at all levels of Canadian society, providing many public good benefits as well as benefits for industry and government directly. We believe that CRNL will be a vehicle to mobilize science and technology (S&T) to Canada’s benefit, that is, it will contribute to the vision of Canada’s S&T strategy: “to build a sustainable national competitive advantage based on science and technology and the skilled workers whose aspirations, ambitions, and talents bring innovations to life.” CRNL will be a productive and sustainable national laboratory that provides both near-term and long-term benefits to the Canadian public, with a good return on the investment of public tax dollars and private investment."

This is a recent writeup about expression's of interests from both CINS and CREATE at a local newspaper: http://www.thedailyobserver.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3524910 ..."Under this proposal, CREATE sees a need for a new research reactor to replace the current NRU reactor. This would be done as part of a longer term transition process in consultation with potential partners and customers. In parallel, detailed planning for a new multi-purpose reactor for research and other applications in the long-term is needed.
“Such a reactor would assume and expand the functions of the aging NRU reactor,” the proposal states.
The Canadian Institute for Neutron Scattering (CINS) is seeking an oversight role to restore Chalk River Laboratories to its position as a centre for research in Canada, and to ensure that its unique combination of capabilities is managed for the benefit of all clients, whether they be academic, government or industrial.
This will also require a new reactor
“We believe that neither Chalk River Laboratories in general, nor Canadian neutron beam research in particular, have a meaningful future without a powerful research reactor on the Chalk River site, and that since NRU is coming to the end of its operational life, it is essential that a new research reactor be built as a matter of great urgency so that an orderly succession can be managed,” the CINS proposal states.
“With investment in a new research reactor, and active promotion of a new research-centred mission for the laboratory, a revitalized Chalk River Laboratories could regain its position as a world leader in nuclear and neutron-based science and technology and serve a broad range of academic, government and industrial users.
“It would advance knowledge and contribute to the training of thousands of highly qualified people, both those who work onsite, and the far larger number of people who would visit the laboratories to use the facilities and interact with the teams of local specialists.”
The CINS proposal states by re-defining the site’s mandate as “research” Chalk River Laboratories would be in a position to contribute to fields far from nuclear engineering and would support research in energy, environment, health, communications, materials science, fundamental physics and chemistry and manufacturing and process development for the automotive, aerospace and mineral processing sectors.
“The knowledge gained would both expand Canada’s technological base, and also inform government as it seeks to develop science-based policies that support a technology-driven economy, and that both foster and regulate industry in Canada,” it states."