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Chalk River Laboratories (French: Laboratoires de Chalk River; also known as CRL, Chalk River Labs and formerly Chalk River Nuclear Laboratories, CRNL) is a Canadian nuclear research facility in Deep River, about 180 km (110 mi) north-west of Ottawa.
Historically, the Chalk River Laboratories was a nuclear power plant and advanced nuclear research facility. 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 ...
It was not known how long a research reactor could be expected to operate, so the management of Chalk River Laboratories began planning the NRU reactor to ensure continuity of the research programs. [2] NRU started self-sustained operation (or went "critical") on November 3, 1957, a decade after the NRX, and was ten times more powerful.
NRX and Zeep buildings 1945. NRX was for a time the world's most powerful research reactor, vaulting Canada into the forefront of physics research.Emerging from a World War II cooperative effort between Britain, the United States, and Canada, NRX was a multipurpose research reactor used to develop new isotopes, test materials and fuels, and produce neutron radiation beams, that became an ...
Chalk River Laboratories: ZED-2: Operational 200 Wth 1960 Chalk River Laboratories: ZEEP: Heavy water Shut down 0 1945 1973 Chalk River Laboratories: The first nuclear reactor in Canada, and first outside the United States WR-1: Organically cooled CANDU: Shut down 1965 [14] 1985 Whiteshell Laboratories: Coolant leak of 2,739 litres in Nov. 1978 ...
NRX and Zeep buildings, Chalk River Laboratories, 1945. The Ottawa River is behind the reactor buildings. The ZEEP (Zero Energy Experimental Pile) reactor was a nuclear reactor built at the Chalk River Laboratories near Chalk River, Ontario, Canada (which superseded the Montreal Laboratory for nuclear research in Canada). ZEEP first went ...
Charles River Laboratories Intl. Inc (NYSE: CRL ), a preclinical and clinical laboratory service provider to the pharmaceutical , medical device and biotechnology industries, is "by far" an ...
ZED-2 (Zero Energy Deuterium) is a zero-power nuclear research reactor built at the Chalk River Laboratories in Ontario, Canada. It is the successor to the ZEEP reactor. Designed by AECL for CANDU reactor support, the unit saw first criticality on 7 September 1960.