AECL withdraw from GDA process

On 4 April 2008, Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd (AECL) announced that the company was withdrawing their ACR 1000 design from the GDA process.

Although the design had just successfully completed step 2 of GDA (the initial assessment carried out by HSE and the Environment Agency), the announcement stated that the decision to withdraw will allow the company to focus its marketing and licensing resources on the Canadian market.