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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.
Robert C. Axtmann and John T. Sears
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 23 | Number 3 | November 1965 | Pages 299-305
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE65-A19563
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Energy loss by fission fragments in nitrogen gas was studied by means of a pulse technique that measured luminescence excited by a low-intensity Cf252 spontaneous fission source. A novel kinetic analysis of competing emission and quenching reactions was developed that gives the power law dependency of energy loss by the fragments in a luminescing gas from the pressure at which maximum luminosity is observed. For nitrogen, the relationship E = E0(1−f)1.70 ± 0.07 is valid for 0.4 E0 < E < E0. The term E is used for the kinetic energy of a fission fragment of initial energy E0 that has traveled a fraction f of its total range.
