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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. E. DICKERMAN, G. H. GOLDEN, L. E. ROBINSON
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 14 | Number 1 | September 1962 | Pages 30-36
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE62-A26197
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Fast reactor fuel sample meltdown experiments have been performed, in the TREAT reactor, with high speed color photography. EBR-II Mark-I and half-length Enrico Fermi Core-A type elements have been studied. In addition, preliminary experiments have been performed on EBR-II size UO2 samples. Sample conditions at the times of failures, types of failures, and rates of emission of material from the elements have been obtained. Course of failure following the initial emission of material is obscured, in the EBR-II sample case, by release of “clouds” of sodium originally present inside the element to effect a thermal bond between fuel and cladding. Photographic results were found to be consistent with previous deductions on sample failures obtained from opaque meltdown experiments.