In the News

Press coverage of the Society and its activities

The 1983 G-16 problem at Pickering Nuclear Generating Station

On August 01 1983, a sudden heavy water leak from one of the 390 fuel...

Candid cold fusion

Nuclear fusion as an energy source is in the news a lot these days, reminding...

Fishy uses of strontium

Strontium, when discussed in a nuclear context, generally has a negative connotation. The isotope Sr-90...

Witness to a Hurricane

We’ve come to know Ray Morrison and his wife Sharon over the last couple of...

Plant Road goes to Bay Street

The year was 1985 and the first of the Mulroney budget cuts had arrived. Those...

The craft of glassblowing

The start of the nuclear age brought with it the need for complex chemistry techniques...

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...