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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.
J. D. Spencer, T. G. Williamson
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 27 | Number 3 | March 1967 | Pages 568-572
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE86-A17623
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The age of fission neutrons was measured to the indium resonance energy for light water and three metal-to-water volume ratios (1/4, 1/2, 2/3) in aluminum- water mixtures. A large plane highly enriched 235U fission plate provided the source of neutrons. Aluminum plates (0.127 × 122 × 122 cm) oriented parallel to the source plane were used for the metal. Indium foil activities were taken in planes parallel to the source and integrated over these planes to obtain the equivalent activities that would result from an infinite source. From these data, the ages for the four cases were: M/W = 0, (26.24 ± 0.33 cm2); M/W = 1/4, (32.28 ± 0.50 cm2); M/W = 1/2, (39.96 ± 0.50 cm2); M/W = 2/3, (44.88 ± 0.59 cm2). To investigate heterogeneous effects, the plates were lumped to simulate 0.635-cm-thick plates and the measurements repeated for the 2/3 metal-to-water ratio. The measured age was 44.50 ± 0.49 cm2, indicating no lumping effect in this measurement. The data for the pure water measurement were also analyzed by applying geometric corrections for the finite size of the source plate. This resulted in a measured age of 27.82 ± 0.66 cm2, which agrees with previous measurements utilizing this method of data analysis.