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Nuclear heritage group welcomes vintage photographs

Among the many artifacts the Nuclear Heritage group has received and are eager to collect...

Chalk River and Material “49”

B.G. Harvey at CRNL (Photo from the Empire Digest, June 1948) The files of the...

The Art of Accelerator Targets

Nuclear physicists using accelerator beams require specialty targets for their studies. During the 1940s, experiments...

Scientific Publishing in the pre-PC Era

Those of us who have been retired for some time look at publications in present-day...

Spreading the Nuclear Message

Despite the fact that radium treatments (nuclear radiation) for cancers started as early as 1904,...

Emails from Families of Chalk River Alumni

Michael, Richard, Alison and Christopher Harvey in Deep River (1951) Over the past year the...

New Zealand’s Contribution to Canadian Nuclear Energy

New Zealanders at the waterfront (spring 1946) R-L: Arthur Allan. Mr. and Mrs. Manssen and...

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...