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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.
Brother Austin Bernabei, L. B. Borst, V. L. Sailor
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 12 | Number 1 | January 1962 | Pages 63-67
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE62-A25371
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The total neutron cross section of Sm152 has been measured in the energy range from 6.84 to 9.18 ev with the BNL crystal spectrometer using the Be (1231) crystal planes as a monochromator. The resonance at 8.036 ev was fitted to a Breit-Wigner single-level formula by the method of shape analysis. Since the target nucleus is even-even, I = 0, and hence the statistical weight factor g = 1. Consequently all Breit-Wigner parameters can be determined from the total cross section measurements alone. The resonance parameters obtained from the analysis are: E0 = 8.036 ± 0.010 ev, σ0 = 210,000 ± 2000 barns, Γ = 0.201 ± 0.008 ev, Γγ = 0.071 ± 0.010 ev, and Γn = 0.130 ± 0.005 ev.
