In the News

Press coverage of the Society and its activities

Recognizing Chalk River Alumni

Several previous Nuclear Heritage articles featured the achievements of a number of the scientists who...

Toronto’s Radium Man

Recently physicist John Hilborn donated a copy of the front page of the Pembroke Observer...

Finding House 71

The Nuclear Heritage website (www.nuclearheritage.com) recently fielded an enquiry from Paul Cornish. Paul, who lives...

What gift does one give a Prince?

A previous article by Morgan Brown under the Nuclear Heritage banner (NRT April 14, 2021)...

The Neutron – The Subject of “Un-decaying” Interest

It is now more than 90 years since the neutron was discovered. Sir James Chadwick,...

Hugh Carmichael: The Wizard of Quartz

The huge improvements in electronics and instrumentation since the mid-1940s have often led researchers to...

Common radioactivity emitters

Nothing seems to excite visitors to science museums, or viewers of science or science-fiction films,...

Refreshing the Keys Legacy

Followers of the history of the nuclear industry in Canada are very familiar with the...

Chalk River’s Soviet Spies. How many?

It is well known that the Chalk River laboratories were established under a cloak of...

Physicist’s Tool or Fortune Teller’s Ball?

The Nuclear Heritage Museum (SPCNHI) has recently received a large collection of artifacts from the...

Shedding light with nuclear

While people in the “nuclear industry” are well aware of the contributions of nuclear power...

The Mystery of the Fueling Machine

The Society for the Preservation of Canada’s Nuclear Heritage Inc. (SPCNHI) was recently contacted by...

The “missing“ Pickering fuel bundle

In December 2017 the nuclear heritage group moved into its present home at 51 Poplar...

Come tour our collection … from your favourite armchair

Recently the Society for the Preservation of Canada’s Nuclear Heritage Inc (SPCNHI) has gone virtual,...

Remembering ING

In a recent article in the North Renfrew Times (Sep 21, 2022), D. Winfield described...