Over the past six years the artifacts collection of the Canadian Nuclear Heritage Museum (CNHM)...
The “reactor era”, which started in 1942, introduced the world of nuclear spectroscopy to...
The Nuclear Power Demonstration (NPD) reactor at Rolphton, ON, was Canada’s first venture into electricity...
George Laurence of the National Research Council (NRC) in Ottawa was one of the first...
You know that eerie blue glow, indicating highly radioactive material? It’s called Cherenkov light, and...
It began with a label on one of our nuclear heritage artifacts, a traditional Gurkha...
In 1957 Chalk River Nuclear Laboratories (CRNL) acquired its first “electronic” computer. Known as the...
Among the many artifacts the Nuclear Heritage group has received and are eager to collect...
B.G. Harvey at CRNL (Photo from the Empire Digest, June 1948) The files of the...
Nuclear physicists using accelerator beams require specialty targets for their studies. During the 1940s, experiments...
Those of us who have been retired for some time look at publications in present-day...
Despite the fact that radium treatments (nuclear radiation) for cancers started as early as 1904,...
Michael, Richard, Alison and Christopher Harvey in Deep River (1951) Over the past year the...
New Zealanders at the waterfront (spring 1946) R-L: Arthur Allan. Mr. and Mrs. Manssen and...
