Adventure Inside Canada’s BIGGEST Nuclear Laboratory
During Nuclear Science Week last fall, Mohamad Saleh and I were given the opportunity to explore the place where Canada’s nuclear story began – Chalk River Laboratories! Recognized today as the country’s largest nuclear research campus, the site is run by nuclear science & technology organization, Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL), and owned by the crown corporation Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL).
While there, we hiked up to the site that could hold Canada’s first low-level waste facility, named the Near Surface Disposal Facility (NSDF). Approved for construction by the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC), the NSDF would safely contain low-level nuclear waste until it decayed to background levels you’d find in nature. Mohamad and I also went inside legacy research reactors, including the National Research Universal (NRU) reactor and the Nuclear Power Demonstration (NPD) reactor, and toured the site’s operating research reactor, the Zero Energy Deuterium (ZED-2) reactor. Visiting the site’s various labs and chatting with their scientists was most certainly a memorable opportunity!
To learn more about what’s going on at Canadian Nuclear Laboratories, follow them on social media and visit their website at www.cnl.ca.
⏰TIMESTAMPS
00:00 - A Rare moment inside Canada's largest nuclear lab
02:54 - The Chalk River Campus
03:42 - National Research Universal Reactor
08:21 - Reactor Control Room of the NRU
09:58 - Near Surface Disposal Facility (NSDF)
12:28 - How does the NSDF Function?
16:18 - High Temperature Fuel Channel Lab
18:54 - Fuel Fabrication Lab
19:22 - TRISO Advance reactor fuels
21:25 - Molten Salt Reactor Lab
21:52 - Mechanical Equipment Development
24:11 - Space Reactor Research
27:25 - Science Collaboration Centre
28:28 - Nuclear Power Demonstration Reactor
30:23 - ZED - 2 Reactor
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