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 ...
