In the News

Press coverage of the Society and its activities

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...

Radium and cancer treatments

Radium was discovered by Marie and Pierre Curie in 1898 in ore mined at the...

Taking to the high road for cosmic rays

In the early 1950s the future of civilian nuclear power looked very bright. There was...