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CNL began developing nuclear technology in the late 1940's and early 1950's. [2] The government owned company Atomic energy of Canada Limited (AECL) took over Chalk River Nuclear Laboratories in 1952, but today the site remains operated through contractors such as CNL. [4] This is referred to as GoCo management, government owned and contractor ...
Ernest Orlando Lawrence – The Man, His Lab, His Legacy Archived November 17, 2015, at the Wayback Machine; Lawrence and His Laboratory: A Historian's View of the Lawrence Years Archived January 18, 2018, at the Wayback Machine; Lawrence Livermore Lab: Remembering E. O. Lawrence; Ernest Lawrence on Nobelprize.org ; Nobel-Winners.com: Ernest ...
Canada's first nuclear power plant, a partnership between AECL and Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario, went online in 1962 near the site of Chalk River Laboratories. This reactor, Nuclear Power Demonstration (NPD), was a demonstration of the CANDU reactor design, one of the world's safest and most successful nuclear reactors.
The Nuclear industry (as distinct from the uranium industry) in Canada dates back to 1942 when a joint British-Canadian laboratory was set up in Montreal, Quebec, under the administration of the National Research Council of Canada, to develop a design for a heavy-water nuclear reactor.
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) Livermore, California, 1952 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (since 2007) [10] 8,000 US$2,217,000,000 Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy; National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) Golden, Colorado, 1977 Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC (since 2008) [11] 2,685 US$393,000,000
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.
Eldorado Resources was a Canadian mining company active between 1926 and 1988. [1] The company was originally established by brothers Charles and Gilbert LaBine as a gold mining enterprise in 1926, [2] but transitioned to focus on radium in the 1930s and uranium beginning in the 1940s.
Robert Lyster Thornton (29 November 1908 – 28 September 1985) was a British-Canadian-American physicist who worked on the cyclotrons at Ernest Lawrence's Radiation Laboratory in the 1930s. During World War II he assisted with the development of the calutron as part of the Manhattan Project .