Yesterday’s PostMedia was abuzz with stories about a plan to ship liquid nuclear reactor waste containing high enriched uranium (HEU) from the Chalk River Lab in Ontario northwest of Ottawa back to the U.S. where the uranium was originally enriched.…
Category: Isotope reactor
Nuclear medicine in Northern Ontario: another spinoff benefit from the CANDU program
Bruce Power, by far Canada’s single largest electricity generating plant, is also the biggest clean energy centre in the western hemisphere. The plant’s eight CANDU nuclear generating units are capable of cranking out 50 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity each year.…
Irradiated food keeps astronauts healthy and productive. Why can’t we earth dwellers have it?
Canada’s most famous son, astronaut Chris Hadfield, just blasted off to the International Space Station. He and his two fellow travelers will fly up to the ISS, where he will stay for the next five months—taking command, the first Canadian…
Food safety and Canada’s economy: time to start using gamma rays, the sharpest tool in our toolbox
Mankind has since the beginning of time been waging daily, life-or-death war against toxic microbes in food. We either kill the microbes or they kill us; it really is that simple. Our primary weapons in this war, from earliest times…
This educational moment brought to you by plutonium, and the end of the Cold War
This photo may look drab but it is the result of an astounding sequence of technological, physical, and historical developments. It is the first image beamed back from the planet Mars by Curiosity, a robot vehicle loaded with instrumentation designed…