Canadas Nuclear Industry in the 21 st Century Established in 1979, - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Canada’s Nuclear Industry in the 21 st Century ➢ Established in 1979, incorporated in 1998 as a voluntary, not for profit membership society ➢ CNS is a national organization with 12 branches across Canada, approximately 1,000 members Mission of the CNS: - Forum for exchange of nuclear science and technology - Advance knowledge education, understanding - Advance capabilities of those engaged in Canada 1

An overview of CANDU 2

Fuel channel 3

Fuel Bundle 4

CANDU Reactor Face 5

The first CANDU – NPD-2 6

The Bruce Power Complex 7

Refurbishment at Bruce 8

Darlington 9

Pickering 10

Point Lepreau 11

Gentilly 12

Qinshan 13

Qinshan 14

Qinshan 15

Qinshan 16

Qinshan 17

Cobalt-60 Production 18

Other Radioisotopes ➢ Canada produces dozens of other isotopes for medical and industrial applications ➢ Most important of these is Molybdenum 99 ➢ Produced by radioactive fission and decay of U235 ➢ Mo-99 decays to Technicium 99 ➢ All Mo-99 produced among a small number of research reactors around the world ➢ NRU ceased production of Mo-99 in 2018 ➢ New methods of production using particle accelerators 19

McArthur River Uranium Mine 20

McArthur River 21

McClean Lake 22

Uranium Fuel Production and Conversion 23

The 21 st Century ➢ New CANDU projects: Argentina, China, Romania ➢ Refurbishment work at Bruce, Darlington 24

The 21 st Century ➢ Small Modular Reactors (SMR) ➢ 10 applications before CNSC for design approval – one has received preliminary approval ➢ More than 80 expressions of interest attracted by CNL 25