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Nuclear Energy Strategy announced at CNA2026
At the Canadian Nuclear Association Conference (CNA2026) in Ottawa, Ontario, on April 29, Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Tim Hodgson announced that Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) is developing a new Nuclear Energy Strategy for the country. The strategy, which is slated to be released by the end of this year, will be based on four objectives: 1) enabling new nuclear builds across Canada, 2) being a global supplier and exporter of nuclear technology and services, 3) expanding uranium production and nuclear fuel opportunities, and 4) developing new Canadian nuclear innovations, including in both fission and fusion technologies.
Chi-Jung Hsu
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 26 | Number 3 | November 1966 | Pages 305-318
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE66-A17351
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The heat transfer characteristics for the case of laminar flow through a hexagonal channel have been determined for the following conditions: The uniform heat flux on any one side of the hexagon is identical to that on the opposite side, and may be equal to or different than those on the two adjacent sides; both the velocity and temperature profiles are fully established; the heat transfer from the walls may or may not be accompanied by simultaneous internal heat generation in the flowing fluid. Fundamental temperature solution and equations are presented which may be used to predict the temperature field, or to calculate the difference between local wall temperature and the bulk fluid temperature for a variety of cases. Methods of predicting the variation of local wall temperature are illustrated for several typical cases, including the case of uniformly distributed wall heat flux. For the latter case, it was found that appreciable temperature variation exists along the periphery of the hexagon. The circumferential variation of the local Nusselt number and the mean Nusselt number are also reported, with and without internal heat generation.