In the News

Press coverage of the Society and its activities

Remembering ING

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

Nuclear Heritage Receives SNO Artifact

The Society for the Preservation of Canada’s Nuclear Heritage recently acquired a significant addition to...

Nuclear Heritage Acquires Vintage Dictionary

Several days before the recent Deep River Triathlon, Jim Ungrin, Artifacts Chair of Society for...

The Almost-Delayed Start-up Of NPD

L-R: C Till, C Whittier and J. Hilborn On June 25 Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL)...

The Start-up of NRX

Many of the milestones in Canadian nuclear history that are being celebrated this year (NRT...

Historic Deep River Homes

Did you know that the former Director of Biology at CRNL, Dr. André Cipriani, was...

Jimmy Carter and the NRX Accident – How a Legend can Grow

When I was a child we had really interesting discussions around the supper table: history,...

The D.I.L. Nitro Journal (1945)

Followers of the early days of Chalk River will recognize the letters D.I.L. as standing...

Nuclear Heritage Exhibit Features NRU

Despite the complications that Covid-19 restrictions have introduced over the past two years, the collection...

Minutes from Montreal Meeting

The Society for the Preservation of Canada’s Nuclear Heritage Inc. has received an enormous volume...

Finding the Low-Background Lab

Arial photograph (1951) of the area near Hill Park showing the 14 “POW buildings” In...

Detection of airborne radioactivity

Ottawa-built, Type 6, Hughes-Owens radium-illuminated aircraft compass. This is another in the series of anecdotes...

Canada’s Nuclear Industry Before Fission

Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario H.A. Bruce with Marcel Pochon (right) at a meeting in Port Hope...

Nuclear Heritage: A Royal Visit

Maybe some of you remember July 30 1954, a grand sunny day for the Chalk...

Broadening the Nuclear Heritage Community

Over the past several years the Society for the Preservation of Canada’s Nuclear Heritage Inc....