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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.
G. J. Fischer, D. A. Meneley, R. N. Hwang, E. F. Groh, C. E. Till
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 25 | Number 1 | May 1966 | Pages 37-46
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE66-A17499
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Doppler effect measurements have been made in two plutonium-fueled fast reactor assemblies at the ZPR-3 reactor. One assembly, Assembly 45A, mocked up a large plutonium-uranium monocarbide fast power breeder reactor having a 239Pu-to-238U ratio of 1:7. The second assembly, Assembly 45, had a considerably softer spectrum, produced by replacing 40% of the canned sodium of the previous assembly by graphite. Zone-loading techniques were used to achieve these mockups. Doppler measurements were made with samples containing highly enriched 239Pu, 239Pu, and 238U mixed in a ratio of 1:7, as in a large breeder reactor, and 238U in two rod diameters. Various check experiments were performed to test the validity of the measurements. The experimental results showed a strong negative Doppler response for 238U, in good agreement with theoretical estimates. The 239Pu in the mixed isotope fuel composition gave only a small positive Doppler contribution. A separate measurement for 235U in the power breeder spectrum was positive and in reasonable agreement with theory. The 239Pu results were the most interesting. Three degrees of increasing “hardness” of neutron energy spectrum incident upon the 239Pu Doppler element were generated by Assembly 45, Assembly 45A, and Assembly 45A with natural B4C surrounding the Doppler element, respectively. The experimental positive 239Pu Doppler effect reactivity change was much smaller than calculated for the softest spectrum. The agreement between theory and experiment improved significantly, however, as the neutron energy spectrum hardened.