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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.
E. E. Lewis, R. Pfeffer
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 27 | Number 3 | March 1967 | Pages 581-585
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE86-A17625
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A formalism based on the Dirac chord method is extended from a previous paper to provide an analytical method for determining the properties of small fission-fragment sources of arbitrary convex geometry. The fragment escape probabilities, energy spectra, and energy deposition fractions are determined for spherical, slab, and cylindrical uranium-dioxide sources, using an energy-loss model that contains initial-energy spectra and range-energy relations for 42 fragment species. For comparison, calculations are also made, using two simplified energy-loss models. Finally, a method is given for generalizing the results to sources containing materials other than uranium dioxide.