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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.
P. K. Kuroda, M. P. Menon
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 10 | Number 1 | May 1961 | Pages 70-74
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE61-A25932
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The occurrence of a number of fission products in pitchblende and in nonirradiated natural and depleted U salts with 10-4 dis/sec/g-U, was recently reported by Kuroda and co-workers. The following nuclides were detected: Sr89, 90, 91, 92, Mo99, I131, 132, 133, 134, 135, and Ba140. These fission products are formed predominantly by the spontaneous fission of U238, and it is possible to obtain the general shape of the mass-yield curve for the spontaneous fission of U238 from the equilibrium activities of the fission products found in nonirradiated U salts. The spontaneous fission half-life of U238 can also be calculated from these data. Radiochemical procedures have been developed for the determination of each fission product, in which a quantity ranging from 0.1 to 1 disintegration/sec of the fission product activity is isolated from kilogram quantities of U salts, purified, and then counted. Where the half-life of the fission product was several months, U minerals instead of U salts, were used. Removal of the bulk of the U by a liquid extraction method was found to be necessary and/or advantageous in most cases, although it was possible to precipitate certain fission products directly from a concentrated solution of the U salts. A new procedure is currently under investigation for the isolation and quantitative determination of the isotopes of Ce by a liquid-liquid extraction method. Ce(IV) can be extracted from a 10 M HNO3 solution by a 1 to 4 mixture of TBP and CCl4 with high extraction efficiency, and further purified by a combination of oxidation-reduction and liquid-liquid extraction procedures.