The majority of the world’s Cobalt-60 comes from Ontario’s nuclear facilities, operated by Bruce Power and Ontario Power Generation (OPG). This supply is provided to Nordion - a company based in Ottawa - to process and distribute it around the world for the sterilization of single-use medical equipment in over 40 countries, including Canada, the United States and China.

This cobalt supply ensures equipment and supplies - surgical gloves, syringes and scalpels to name a few - by front-line medical professionals to treat patients are sterilized, clean and safe for use. A leading method for sterilizing this equipment is called “irradiation” which uses the processed Cobalt-60 isotope made in Ontario’s nuclear reactors to sterilize single-use medical equipment and material in large volumes, doing so effectively and quickly.

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Source: The SPEC