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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.
F. B. Simpson, J. W. Codding, Jr.
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 28 | Number 1 | April 1967 | Pages 133-138
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE67-A18676
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Transmission measurements on 233Pa have been taken with the Materials Testing Reactor (MTR) fast chopper. The total cross section has been calculated in the energy range from 0.01 to 10 000 eV. These measurements were made on 700 mg of chemically separated 233Pa in an oxide form. The protactinium was produced by irradiating 280 g of 232Th in the Engineering Test Reactor (ETR). The sample represented approximately 15 000 Ci of activity. The data were taken with a resolution of 0.08 to 2.0 μsec/m. The Breit-Wigner (B-W) resonance parameters have been obtained for the resonances below 18 eV. The average parameters give a value of 0.75 × 10 −4 for the s-wave neutron strength function . Weighting the level spacings inversely as 2J + 1 gives the average observed level spacings per spin state of 1.10 and 1.84 eV. A second-order polynomial least-squares fit to the data between 0.01 and 0.10 eV gives a 2200 m/sec total neutron cross section of 55 ± 3 b, superseding a value of 57 b given previously. The resonance-absorption integral for neutrons with energies above 0.4 eV was calculated to be 901 ± 45 b.