In the News
Press coverage of the Society and its activities

Insect control via irradiation
I recently stumbled upon an article in the March 23, 1959, issue of the North

The ZEBRA project
The late 1970s saw an optimistic future for the world economies. However, the OECD (Organization

A remarkable bundle of energy
One of the things people visiting the Canadian Nuclear Heritage Museum (CNHM) most appear to

Chalk River – the world’s premier supplier of isotopes
When the National Research Experimental (NRX) reactor came on line in July 1947, it was

William J. Bennett- nuclear industry pioneer
The name of William (Bill) J. Bennett rarely appears on a list of nuclear industry

The town lab
In the 1950s AECL had a need for a low-background laboratory. Part of this need

Checking radon concentrations
A previous article in this series (North Renfrew Times, March 14, 2025) discussed the entry

Pioneering technician reaches century mark
On Friday, May 2, 2025, Walter Woytowich, long-time Deep River resident, was expecting to celebrate

Food irradiation
The 25 October, 1961, issue of the North Renfrew Times featured a photograph of a

Early nuclear fake news
There is increasing concern these days about the validity of what is reported by the

Harriet Brooks: pioneering nuclear scientist
“It is amazing how many women were involved in the study of radioactivity during that

Mathematical modelling
During their graduate courses at university most researchers encountered advanced mathematical courses combined with engineering,

Chalk River’s loops
For more than four decades the National Research Experimental (NRX) and National Research Universal) (NRU)

Chalk River’s π√2 spectrometer
The development in the mid-1960s in Chalk River of the lithium-drifted germanium detectors by George

Atomic wives finally visit husbands’ workplaces
For more than a decade after the Canadian nuclear program was established, the wives of



































