During their graduate courses at university most researchers encountered advanced mathematical courses combined with engineering, physics or chemistry courses that ...
For more than four decades the National Research Experimental (NRX) and National Research Universal) (NRU) reactors at Chalk River were ...
The development in the mid-1960s in Chalk River of the lithium-drifted germanium detectors by George Ewan and Alistair Tavendale led ...
For more than a decade after the Canadian nuclear program was established, the wives of researchers were kept in the ...
Radium was discovered by Marie and Pierre Curie in 1898 in ore mined at the silver mines in Jáchymov, Austria-Hungary ...
In the early 1950s the future of civilian nuclear power looked very bright. There was significant concern, however, that the ...
The 1952 National Research eXperimental (NRX) reactor accident is generally regarded as the world’s first serious “reactor accident”. Wikipedia, however, ...
The history of the scientific slide rule, that important tool of almost all scientists and engineers until the early 1970s, ...
In addition to the collection of over 650 “physical artifacts” that the Canadian Nuclear Heritage Museum (CNHM) houses, there is ...
Among the recent donations to the Canadian Nuclear Heritage Museum (CNHM) is a copy of the front page of the ...
An earlier Nuclear Heritage article in the NRT (August 21, 2024) contained a photograph of Jack Hardwick and Fred Goulding ...
Several earlier articles in this series have touched on the role that computers have played in the ease with which ...
In the 1950’s many countries were interested in using energy from nuclear fission to make electricity. The heat from the ...
Over the past six years the artifacts collection of the Canadian Nuclear Heritage Museum (CNHM) has grown significantly. Most of ...
The “reactor era”, which started in 1942, introduced the world of nuclear spectroscopy to a huge expansion in the ...
The Nuclear Power Demonstration (NPD) reactor at Rolphton, ON, was Canada’s first venture into electricity production from nuclear fission. Discussions ...
George Laurence of the National Research Council (NRC) in Ottawa was one of the first researchers in the world to ...
You know that eerie blue glow, indicating highly radioactive material? It’s called Cherenkov light, and it’s behind the success of ...
It began with a label on one of our nuclear heritage artifacts, a traditional Gurkha kukri knife, in the Society ...
In 1957 Chalk River Nuclear Laboratories (CRNL) acquired its first “electronic” computer. Known as the Datatron, Bendix, Burroughs 205 or ...
Among the many artifacts the Nuclear Heritage group has received and are eager to collect are photographs of the early ...
B.G. Harvey at CRNL (Photo from the Empire Digest, June 1948) The files of the Canadian Nuclear Heritage Museum (CNHM) ...
Nuclear physicists using accelerator beams require specialty targets for their studies. During the 1940s, experiments with relatively low-voltage accelerators (2 ...
Those of us who have been retired for some time look at publications in present-day journals, which display text, equations ...
Despite the fact that radium treatments (nuclear radiation) for cancers started as early as 1904, Wikipedia defines the start of ...
Michael, Richard, Alison and Christopher Harvey in Deep River (1951) Over the past year the Society for the Preservation of ...
New Zealanders at the waterfront (spring 1946) R-L: Arthur Allan. Mr. and Mrs. Manssen and finally, Gordon Fergusson The name ...
Several previous Nuclear Heritage articles featured the achievements of a number of the scientists who worked at the Chalk River ...
Recently physicist John Hilborn donated a copy of the front page of the Pembroke Observer from 1957 Nov 4, which ...
The Nuclear Heritage website (www.nuclearheritage.com) recently fielded an enquiry from Paul Cornish. Paul, who lives in the U.K. was planning ...
A previous article by Morgan Brown under the Nuclear Heritage banner (NRT April 14, 2021) commemorated the July 30, 1954, ...
It is now more than 90 years since the neutron was discovered. Sir James Chadwick, who was later to play ...
The huge improvements in electronics and instrumentation since the mid-1940s have often led researchers to overlook many of the ingenious ...
Nothing seems to excite visitors to science museums, or viewers of science or science-fiction films, more than the sound of ...
Followers of the history of the nuclear industry in Canada are very familiar with the name of Dr. David Arnold ...
It is well known that the Chalk River laboratories were established under a cloak of secrecy dictated by WW II ...
The Nuclear Heritage Museum (SPCNHI) has recently received a large collection of artifacts from the descendants of Bob MacLanders. Bob ...
While people in the “nuclear industry” are well aware of the contributions of nuclear power stations to the mix of ...
The Society for the Preservation of Canada’s Nuclear Heritage Inc. (SPCNHI) was recently contacted by Gordon Harvey with the offer ...
In December 2017 the nuclear heritage group moved into its present home at 51 Poplar and issued an appeal to ...
Recently the Society for the Preservation of Canada’s Nuclear Heritage Inc (SPCNHI) has gone virtual, in a virtuous way. Thanks ...
In a recent article in the North Renfrew Times (Sep 21, 2022), D. Winfield described a visit to the European ...
The Society for the Preservation of Canada’s Nuclear Heritage recently acquired a significant addition to its artifact collection. The photomultiplier ...
Several days before the recent Deep River Triathlon, Jim Ungrin, Artifacts Chair of Society for the Preservation of Canada’s Nuclear ...
L-R: C Till, C Whittier and J. Hilborn On June 25 Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL) held a highly-successful Open House ...
Many of the milestones in Canadian nuclear history that are being celebrated this year (NRT 27 April 2022) were well ...
Did you know that the former Director of Biology at CRNL, Dr. André Cipriani, was the inventor of the anti-nausea ...
When I was a child we had really interesting discussions around the supper table: history, science, politics, etc. After supper ...
Followers of the early days of Chalk River will recognize the letters D.I.L. as standing for Defence Industries Limited. This ...
Despite the complications that Covid-19 restrictions have introduced over the past two years, the collection of artifacts at 51 Poplar, ...
The Society for the Preservation of Canada’s Nuclear Heritage Inc. has received an enormous volume of documentation over the past ...
Arial photograph (1951) of the area near Hill Park showing the 14 “POW buildings” In a previous nuclear heritage article ...
Ottawa-built, Type 6, Hughes-Owens radium-illuminated aircraft compass. This is another in the series of anecdotes taken verbatim from Les Cook’s ...
Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario H.A. Bruce with Marcel Pochon (right) at a meeting in Port Hope (1936) to celebrate the production ...
Maybe some of you remember July 30 1954, a grand sunny day for the Chalk River Nuclear Laboratories of two-year-old ...
Over the past several years the Society for the Preservation of Canada’s Nuclear Heritage Inc. has attempted to reach as ...
In the fall of 2020 during an easing in the lockdown conditions. Phyllis Purvis called the Society for the Preservation ...
The lobby of NRX has recently been turned into an office area for CNL decommissioning teams. As a result, some ...
The Society for the Preservation of Canada’s Nuclear Heritage Inc. (SPCNHI) has now reached the important milestone of 500 catalogued ...
Among the artifacts donated to the Society for the Preservation of Canada’s Nuclear Heritage Inc. (SPCNHI) is a collection of ...
Cross-Functional Secretarial CQI team at CRL, 1992 Front (L-R): Wanda Bell WL; Patty Drew, WL; Judith Simpson, WL; Lynn MacDonald, ...
Signing of Contract for Space Shuttle O-Ring Work Back –standing (L-R): Wade Mayo, Dino Spagnolo, Jeff Mackwood, Tony Spurgess, Richard ...
Dictionaries describe rabbits several ways. The most appropriate description for the nuclear industry is the one crediting them with being ...
On 19 January 1978 the US government advised the world that its space monitoring group had determined that the Russian ...
Over the centuries one of the unrealized dreams of many alchemists has been discovering the formula for converting materials into ...
Harry Collins as Winner of 1963 Golden Garbage Pail Award (L-R); Rupe Wright, Gib James, Harry Collins, Borden McCallum (Fire ...
In early July Graham Carpenter, a Chalk River alumnus now living in Ottawa, contacted the Society for the Preservation of ...
Several days before the general lockdown in Ontario in March caused by the Covid-19 pandemic Jim Ungrin received a phone ...
The collection of artifacts the Society for the Preservation of Canada’s Nuclear Heritage Inc. has from the Nuclear Power Demonstration ...
Some employees at CRNL who worked in certain parts of the Active Area of the laboratory often were involved with ...
The recent world concerns with transmutable viruses bring back memories of the bus service at AECL and the lack of ...
The Nuclear Heritage group (SPCNHI) has now been receiving welcome donations of artifacts for several years. Many of these donations ...
One of the larger and more unusual artifacts donated to the Society for the Preservation of Canada’s Nuclear Heritage Inc. ...
Prior to 1957 when the first “electronic” computer, the Datatron, was acquired by AECL, important physics and reactor calculations were ...
The Society for the Preservation of Canada’s Nuclear Heritage has received a number of artifacts used to design the intricate ...
Most of the electronic devices used in the nuclear industry prior to 1960 relied on vacuum tubes. These elegantly-constructed devices, ...
Why, one would ask, when politicians all over Ontario are pledging to cut paper tape, would a group be seeking ...
In the mid 1970’s we were a new generation of AECL employees, and we were restless. We had already upset ...
People working in the Canadian nuclear industry, past and present, are quite familiar with heavy water, or deuterium oxide as ...
The Society for the Preservation of Canada’s Nuclear Heritage Inc. (SPCNHI) recently purchased two books about the heavy water plants ...
The Society for the Preservation of Canada’s Nuclear Heritage has among its artifacts pieces of graphite from the first nuclear ...
It was the year 1988, and the American Nuclear Society had organized their annual conclave around the theme “50 years ...
Many Canadian, British and European scientists played important roles in the beginnings of Canada’s nuclear story and have received various ...
Over the years Canada became a major international supplier of radioactive isotopes. This was particularly true for medical isotopes such ...
The year 2022 celebrates many anniversaries of important events in nuclear energy history. These include the 80th anniversary of the ...
I was delighted to learn (NRT, February 2, 2022) of Al Cooper’s family members following in his illustrious CANDU operations ...
Wikipedia defines a nuclear family as “an elementary family or conjugal family group consisting of two parents and their children ...
Over the last three years the Society for the Preservation of Canada’s Nuclear Heritage Inc. (SPCNHI) has received several large ...
A previous Nuclear Heritage article discussed Marcel Pochon, the Canadian radium industry in the early part of the twentieth century, ...
The Society for the Preservation of Canada’s Nuclear Heritage Inc. welcomes anecdotes about the nuclear industry and has reported a ...
Over the last three years the Society for the Preservation of Canada’s Nuclear Heritage Inc. (SPCNHI) has accumulated a large ...
The Society for the Preservation of Canada’s Nuclear Heritage Inc. (SPCNHI) has accumulated a large collection of artifacts, photographs, books ...
This is another in the series of anecdotes taken verbatim from Les Cook’s unpublished book “Birthpangs of CANDU”, a copy ...
In addition to collecting artifacts and documents from the early days of the Canadian nuclear industry the Society for the ...
Several artifacts from the office of the late Don Charlesworth at the Chalk River Laboratories (CRL) have been donated to ...
Part of the mission of the Society for the Preservation of Canada’s Nuclear Heritage Inc. (SPCNHI) is to collect and ...
There has been a resurgence of interest in very small modular reactors (vSMR)s at a time when the pioneer series ...
The Nuclear Heritage group continues to unravel and record the early history of Deep River and CRNL. A mystery has ...
Over the past 18 months the nuclear heritage group (Society for the Preservation of Canada’s Nuclear Heritage Inc.) has collected ...
The nuclear heritage group (officially the Society for the Preservation of Canada’s Nuclear Heritage Inc., SPCNHI) would like to help ...
The precautions needed when using uranium and other similar radioactive materials are now well known; this was not always the ...
The Nuclear Heritage group have been collecting a wide range of articles related to various aspects of and events that ...
In addition to collecting artifacts directly dealing with nuclear research and the nuclear industry, the Nuclear Heritage group (aka SPCHNI) ...
It’s a wonderful photograph, black and white, two corners folded over, with creases and speckles. Three lovely young couples, dressed ...
The anecdotes that the Society for the Preservation of Canada’s Nuclear Heritage Inc. (SPCNHI) has collected, and continues to welcome, ...
