Framed authorization for Dr. Keys to perform restart of NRX in 1954

Artifact Number:

2023-003

Description

A 10 cm by 13 cm, wooden framed document dated Feb. 17, 1954, authorizing Dr. D.A. Keys “To operate controls associated with the N.R.X. Control System in accordance with N.R.X. Policy 1-2”.  The authorization was given, and is signed, by G. (Gib) M. James, Superintendent of the NRX Reactors Branch.  This was a historic event in that it allowed Dr. Keys to initiate the restart procedure of NRX after the serious accident of December 1952.

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Keywords:
canada nrx research reactor; radioisotope generator; fission products
Date:
1954
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