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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.
J. L. Crane, R. C. Doerner
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 16 | Number 3 | July 1963 | Pages 259-262
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE63-A26528
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Self-shielding and edge corrections were investigated for varying thicknesses of 1 cm dia. gold foils. Test foils were irradiated in the hohlraum or air chamber of the Cornell University TRIGA Mark II reactor. The self-shielding effect was determined from the activation of a series of foils of different thicknesses and the edge correction from the activities of successively smaller concentric rings punched from the parent foil. Edge effects were found in the 2.5 mil and thicker foils and were statistically significant only in the outer millimeter of the foil radius. After cutting off the outer millimeter of the foils, the activity was found to follow the ½ − E3(t∑a) law for infinite foils.
