Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... move to sidebar hide. Help. Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. Download coordinates as: ... Pages in category "Nuclear ...
Conference room at CEGHQ, former CFS Carp. Teletype terminals at CEGHQ, former CFS Carp. Organigramme. Emergency Government Headquarters is the name given for a system of nuclear fallout shelters built by the Government of Canada in the 1950s and 1960s as part of continuity of government planning at the height of the Cold War.
The blast tunnel entrance. The doors to the actual bunker are perpendicular to this tunnel which reduces the effects of a nuclear shock wave. In 1958, at the height of the Cold War and the infancy of the intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) threat, Prime Minister John Diefenbaker authorized the creation of close to 50 Emergency Government Headquarters (nicknamed "Diefenbunkers" by ...
Bruce Nuclear Generating Station: Tiverton, Ontario: Bruce Power High-level radioactive waste (wet storage), non-used nuclear fuel High-level radioactive waste Operating [1] [2] BWX Technologies Fuel Manufacturing Peterborough, Ontario. Toronto, Ontario. BWX Technologies Nuclear Energy Canada Low-level radioactive waste Operating [1]
Location Owner References Port Radium idle mine site: Port Radium: Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development [1] Rayrock idle mine site: On the south side of Maryleer Lake and the north shore of Fault Lake, 169km N.W. of Yellowknife and 74km N.W. of Rae: Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development
Download QR code; Print/export ... move to sidebar hide. Help. Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. Download coordinates as: ... Pages in category "Nuclear bunkers"
ZEEP (left), NRX (right) and NRU (back) reactors at Chalk River, 1954. In 1944, approval was given to proceed with the construction of the smaller ZEEP (Zero Energy Experimental Pile) test reactor at Chalk River Nuclear Laboratories in Ontario and on September 5, 1945, at 3:45 p.m., the 10-watt ZEEP achieved the first self-sustained nuclear reaction outside the United States.
Nuclear Free Zones are similar to Nuclear Weapon Free Zones, except that they ban the presence of Civilian nuclear infrastructure as well as nuclear arms. The history of Nuclear Weapons Free Zones is closely tied to that of the Canadian Peace Movement, and much of the support for proposed Nuclear Weapons Free Zones was in response to the ...