The Radioactive Metal That Gives Canada Leverage Over Every American Hospital

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40%. That's the share of ALL the single-use medical supplies on Earth — syringes, catheters, IV sets, surgical gloves, sutures, gauze — sterilized by the invisible gamma light of one radioactive metal: Cobalt-60. And half of the entire world's supply comes from ONE place: Ontario, Canada — all of it through one company near Ottawa called Nordion. It gets deeper. According to the World Nuclear Association, almost ALL of the world's medical and sterilization Cobalt-60 is produced in CANDU reactors — Canada's own reactor design, which can be refuelled while running. America's light-water reactors were never built for it. Even Russia's ~25% of global supply mostly flows through Nordion. Even your surgeon's gloves passed through Canadian light. How does it work? You can't boil a plastic syringe. Gamma radiation passes straight through sealed packaging, killing every microorganism without heat or residue. Stable cobalt-59 rods sit for years inside the core of CANDU reactors at Bruce Power

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