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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, John, Bridgwater
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 15 | Number 1 | January 1963 | Pages 81-89
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE63-A26266
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Fast neutrons deposit energy in chemical systems by means of elastic scattering, inelastic scattering, and various charged particle reactions. For the particular case of 14.6 Mev neutrons and 1:1 solutions of liquid N2 and O2, the proportions by which the three classes of reactions contribute are, respectively, about 1:1:4. The initial linear energy transfer (ILET) in the same system is of the order of 20 ev/Å. Dosimetry in fast neutron radiation chemistry experiments may combine a quantitative consideration of each nuclear reaction with a measurement of the neutron flux. This method of dosimetry has been applied to experiments on the production of NO2 in 1:1 liquid N2 and O2 with the result that GNO2, the number of NO2 molecules formed per 100 ev deposited in the sample, was found equal to 0.5 ±0.1. This result is surprisingly close to that observed for irradiations by Co50 gamma rays and by electrons whose ILET is three orders of magnitude less than that for 14.6 Mev neutrons.
