Canada Enters The Nuclear Age

Author : Atomic Energy of Canada Limited
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0773516018

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Canada Enters the Nuclear Age by Atomic Energy of Canada Limited Pdf

The nuclear energy company has overseen the production of its own history, focusing on programs at its laboratories in Chalk River, Ontario, and Whiteshell, Manitoba between 1943 and 1985. The 16 scientists who wrote the narrative discuss the organization and operations of the laboratories, nuclear safety and radiation protection, radioisotopes, basic research, developing the CANDU reactor, managing the radioactive wastes, business development, and revenue generation. Canadian card order number: C97-900188-9. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Susan Colbourn,Timothy Andrews Sayle
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774864008

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The Nuclear North by Susan Colbourn,Timothy Andrews Sayle Pdf

Since the first atomic weapon was detonated in 1945, Canadians have debated not only the role of nuclear power in their uranium-rich land but also their country’s role in a nuclear world. Should Canada belong to international alliances that depend on the threat of nuclear weapons for their own security? Should Canadian-produced nuclear technologies be exported? What about the impact of atomic research on local communities and the environment? This incisive nuclear history engages with much larger debates about national identity, Canadian foreign policy contradictions during the Cold War, and Canada’s global standing to investigate these critical questions.

Author : Roger G. Steed
Publisher : GeneralStore PublishingHouse
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Nuclear energy
ISBN : 189711351X

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Nuclear Power by Roger G. Steed Pdf

This book tells us how nuclear power works, what it looks like, and why it is safe. It explains how nuclear fission works, how nuclear reactors are controlled, and how their safety systems reliably protect us. For those of us who have never visited a nuclear power station, the author provides detailed descriptions, drawings, and photographs. He addresses our concerns about radiation protection, the economy of CANDU reactors, the lifespan of nuclear plants, and plant decommissioning. This book provides an understanding of the use of nuclear power, with its potential to protect our environment and decrease global warming.-- Publisher.

Author : Brian Buckley
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2000-09-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780773568617

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Canada's Early Nuclear Policy by Brian Buckley Pdf

In Canada's Early Nuclear Policy Brian Buckley weaves information from a number of disciplines to shed new light on Canada's early policies. Filling a longstanding gap in the national story, he explores the country's role in the early post-war period, cautioning against simplistic explanations and pointing to the continuing roles of contingency and personality in decision making. While the threat of nuclear war has receded in recent years, the number of states with nuclear weapons, the number of weapons, and their killing power are all far greater than they were five decades ago. Virtually all the issues that emerged fifty years ago remain on the international agenda and are as relevant today as ever.

Author : Alan Nixon,Canada. Library of Parliament. Research Branch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 17 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Nuclear fuels
ISBN : 0660156350

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Canada's Nuclear Fuel Industry by Alan Nixon,Canada. Library of Parliament. Research Branch Pdf

Author : Andrew Paul Burtch
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774822404

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Give Me Shelter by Andrew Paul Burtch Pdf

What do you do when a nuclear weapon detonates nearby? During the early Cold War years of 1945-63, Civil Defence Canada and the Emergency Measures Organization planned for just such a disaster and encouraged citizens to prepare their families and their cities for nuclear war. By the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis, the civil defence program was widely mocked, and the public was vastly unprepared for nuclear war. Canada’s civil defence program was born in the early Cold War, when fears of conflict between the superpowers ran high. Give Me Shelter features previously unreleased documents detailing Canada’s nuclear survival plans. Andrew Burtch reveals how the organization publicly appealed to citizens to prepare for disaster themselves -- from volunteering as air-raid wardens to building fallout shelters. This tactic ultimately failed, however, due to a skeptical populace, chronic underfunding, and repeated bureaucratic fumbling. Give Me Shelter exposes the challenges of educating the public in the face of the looming threat of nuclear annihilation. Give Me Shelter explains how governments and the public prepared for the unexpected. It is essential reading for historians, policymakers, and anybody interested in Canada’s Cold War home front.

Author : Atomic Energy of Canada Limited
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 19??
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:56244472

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Into the Age of Nuclear Power by Atomic Energy of Canada Limited Pdf

Author : Gray, J. L,Atomic Energy of Canada Limited
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:228985625

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The Future of Nuclear Power in Canada by Gray, J. L,Atomic Energy of Canada Limited Pdf

Author : Danderfer, Karen,Hargraves, Susan Lynn,Marcuse, Gary,National Film Board of Canada
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Arms control
ISBN : 0772201730

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Alive in the Nuclear Age : an Anthology of Short Programs about Nuclear Fears, Nuclear Issues, Nuclear Power, and the Arms Race : for Students Ages 11 to 16. Teachers' Guide by Danderfer, Karen,Hargraves, Susan Lynn,Marcuse, Gary,National Film Board of Canada Pdf

Author : Peter Charles Newman
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015019170656

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True North, Not Strong and Free by Peter Charles Newman Pdf

Canadian defence issues in a global perspective. An analysis of Canada's long-ignored defence policies.

Author : Atomic Energy of Canada Limited,G. P. L. WILLIAMS,M. BRANDRETH,G. O. BAINES
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:56241389

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Nuclear Information in Canada - Approach to a National Service by Atomic Energy of Canada Limited,G. P. L. WILLIAMS,M. BRANDRETH,G. O. BAINES Pdf

Author : Atomic Energy of Canada Limited,S. R. (Stanley Ronald) Hatcher,Énergie atomique du Canada, limitée
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:15838875

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Nuclear Power in Canada : Status and Prospects by Atomic Energy of Canada Limited,S. R. (Stanley Ronald) Hatcher,Énergie atomique du Canada, limitée Pdf

Author : Andrew Peter Rasiulis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105081439601

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On the Utility of War in the Nuclear Age by Andrew Peter Rasiulis Pdf

Author : David D. Caron,Harry N. Scheiber
Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-17
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004279988

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The Oceans in the Nuclear Age by David D. Caron,Harry N. Scheiber Pdf

The advent of the nuclear age in 1945 fundamentally altered the course of human events. The oceans are not the focus of the nuclear age, but the affairs of the oceans are deeply woven into the history of that age. Knowledge of what the nuclear age has meant for the oceans, however, is highly fragmented and there exists a surprising gap in research on the impact of the nuclear age on the oceans and on ocean law and policy. Ranging from dumped wastes to transportation to security, this study frames the complex multidimensional set of relationships between the oceans and the nuclear age and illuminates patterns of impact and response in ocean law. This timely expanded edition includes a new chapter by Lt. Todd Hutchins, USN, on “Nuclear Risks in Coastal Areas: Legal and Regulatory Responses.” It provides a full discussion of the 2011 coastal Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant disaster, together with analysis more generally of the challenges to the environment and to the legal order globally that are posed by coastal siting of nuclear power plants.

Author : Ken Hunt
Publisher : ISSN
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1773850547

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The Manhattan Project by Ken Hunt Pdf

The hands of humans split the atom and reshaped the world. Gradually revealing a sublime nightmare that begins with spontaneous nuclear fission in the protozoic and ends with the omnicide of the human race, The Manhattan Project traces the military, cultural, and scientific history of the development of nuclear weapons and nuclear power through searing lyric, procedural, and visual poetry. Ken Hunt's poetry considers contemporary life-life in the nuclear age-broadly and deeply. It dances through the liminal zones between routine and disaster, between life and death, between creation and destruction. From the mundane to the extraordinary, Hunt's poems expose the depth to which the nuclear has impacted every aspect of the everyday, and question humanity's ability to avoid our destruction. Challenging the complicity of the scientists who created devastating weapons, exploring the espionage of the nuclear arms race, and exposing the role of human error in nuclear disaster, The Manhattan Project is a necropastoral exploration of the literal and figurative fallout of the nuclear age. These poems wail like a meltdown siren, condemning anthropocentric thinking for its self-destructive arrogance.