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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.
C. Eisenhauer
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 32 | Number 2 | May 1968 | Pages 166-177
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE68-A19729
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Calculations are made of the radiation flux of gamma rays that have originated from a point isotropic source and have been singly scattered in the air lying beyond a plane interface. Calculations are made in the limit that the source-detector separation distance is small compared to a mean-free-path in air. These results are interpreted in terms of an image source. The results, combined with earlier calculations of the radiation flux reflected from a condensed medium, such as ground, predict the effect of the ground-air interface on radiation fluxes in air near the interface. The results are extrapolated to source-detector separation of the order of a mean-free-path by using infinite-medium buildup factors. Comparisons with experiment show that the model produces results that are in qualitative agreement with experiment.