2015 CAP Congress / Congrès de l'ACP 2015

Session

Science Policy Committee Breakfast Meeting / Réunion-déjeuner du Comité de politique scientifique

R-SciPol

18 Jun 2015, 07:30

University of Alberta

Conveners

Science Policy Committee Breakfast Meeting / Réunion-déjeuner du Comité de politique scientifique

• Kristin Poduska (Memorial University of Newfoundland)

904. The 2018 Shutdown of the NRU reactor

18/06/2015, 07:30

Invited Speaker / Conférencier invité

The federal government recently announced its decision to shut down the NRU reactor in 2018. The National Research Universal (NRU) reactor commenced operation in 1957, to provide neutrons for several missions simultaneously, including the production of neutron beams to support fundamental experimental research on solids and liquids, advancing knowledge of condensed matter physics. Today, the...