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1963 - AECL builds the Whiteshell Laboratories nuclear research facility. 1980 - AECL receives $40-million in funding to construct the Underground Research Laboratory (URL). 1983 - Construction of the URL begins. 1985 - URL opens; 1998 - Work begins to decommission the Whiteshell laboratory; 2010 - Underground Research Laboratory is officially ...
The Underground Research Laboratory was a test site for deep geological repository of nuclear waste operated by Atomic Energy of Canada Limited's (AECL's) Whiteshell Laboratories near Lac du Bonnet in Manitoba, Canada. The site was built inside a large granite batholith, typical of the Canadian Shield. The site was selected in 1980 ...
The Whiteshell Reactor No. 1, or WR-1, was a Canadian research reactor located at AECL's Whiteshell Laboratories (WNRL) in Manitoba. Originally known as Organic-Cooled Deuterium-Reactor Experiment ( OCDRE ), [ 1 ] it was built to test the concept of a CANDU-type reactor that replaced the heavy water coolant with an oil substance.
In 1963, AECL established the Whiteshell Nuclear Research Establishment (now Whiteshell Laboratories) in Pinawa, Manitoba, where an organically moderated and cooled reactor was built. Later work on developing a SLOWPOKE reactor , thorium fuel cycle , and a proposal for safe storage of radioactive waste were carried out at this site.
The SLOWPOKE research reactor was conceived in 1967 at the Whiteshell Laboratories of AECL. In 1970 a prototype unit called SLOWPOKE (both the name of the reactor and of the prototype reactor class of 2 reactors it was a member of; especially later when further generations of SLOWPOKE reactors had appeared, these type of reactors were named SLOWPOKE-1), was designed and built at Chalk River ...
Since WIPP opened in 1999, the repository received 572 shipments from Hanford, the fifth-most after 1,646 shipments from Los Alamos National Laboratory, 1,747 from Savannah River Site, 2,045 ...
TRU nuclear waste in need of disposal could increase at Los Alamos as it was planned to generate 30 pits a year, combined with 50 a year by 2030 at the DOE’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina.
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. [15] SLOWPOKE-3 demonstration Pool type Shut down 2 MWth 1987 [14] 1989 [14] Whiteshell Laboratories: SLOWPOKE-2: Pool ...