Framed photograph of an almost completed Pickering A calandria at Canadian Vickers

Artifact Number:

2018-193

Description

A colour photograph, mounted on a 30 cm by 36 cm acrylic sheet, of a Pickering A calandria approaching completion at Canadian Vickers Co. Ltd. in Montreal.  In the photograph 378 of the 390 fuel channels have been installed. The first four units at the Pickering Generating Station (known also as Pickering A) all had 390 fuel channels.  In units 5-8 (known also as Pickering B) the number of fuel channels was reduced to 380.

Details

Keywords:
containers; pressure tubes; candu type reactors
Date:
~1968
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