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He has worked 33 years at Atomic Energy and spent the last 20 years traveling the world selling the Canadian-made nuclear technology to countries such as Argentina, China, Korea and Romania. Petrunik predicts nuclear energy will lead the industry in the next 20 to 50 years and that 10 to 20 years from now communities will be immersed in bidding wars to store nuclear waste --primarily because they will better understand the technology and get beyond the sociopolitical arguments. "Canada has to keep up to capitalize on this growth. Instead of doubling our employment by 2016, we could go the other way," he added. Atomic Energy Canada now employs 4,700 people, who design and provide Candu technology and related services to nuclear utilities around the world. Currently, in Ontario there are 18 Candu reactors and nuclear power supplies 54 per cent of the province's electricity. Petrunik said Ontario doesn't have a future with coal-powered plants. While he believes wind power alone can't fill the void, he believes it is necessary to develop that option. According to an Ipsos Reid poll released in February, 75 per cent of Ontarians think nuclear reactors should play the same or an increased role in Canada's energy mix over the next few decades. Canadians don't glorify their own success stories for some rea- son and believe that everything non-Canadian is better, added Petrunik. "Why can't we get support in our own country," asked Petrunik who feared Candu technology could go the way of the Avro Arrow, the Canadian designed and built aircraft of the 1950s. At the time it was considered on the leading edge internationally, yet government funding for the program was abruptly cancelled. Nuclear accidents such as Chernobyl in 1986 and Three Mile Island in 1979 have also given the industry a black eye. But at Chernobyl, workers made six serious errors, including shutting off the reactor's automatic safety systems. It also had thinner graphite wall barriers and a tin roof like a warehouse, said Petrunik. Three Mile Island was a partial meltdown and although there were no resulting injuries, the cleanup was slow and costly and led to major decline in public popularity of nuclear power. Slowly, as the public becomes better informed, people are coming to accept the economic and environmental benefits of nuclear generation and its safety features, said Petrunik. 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