Heavy Water: a Canadian (and BC) story
Event Date:
2022-03-31T16:00:00
2022-03-31T17:00:00
Event Location:
Hennings 201 (or via zoom)
Speaker:
Chris Waltham (UBC)
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Intended Audience:
Undergraduate
Local Contact:
Douglas Scott
Event Information:
In the mid-90s I found myself, as a member of the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) collaboration, a recipient and custodian of 1000 tonnes of “spare” heavy water, book value $300M. How such a rare asset came to exist in Canada is a complex story of nuclear physics, geopolitics, world war, flight and exile. For a while the tale runs along the fringe of the Manhattan Project saga, but it largely concerns reactors rather than bombs. The story crosses continents (Norway-France-Canada) in circumstances anyone familiar with the news at this moment can readily imagine. Part of it is however set far away from conflict and from well-known centres of nuclear research, in the south-eastern corner of British Columbia.
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2022-03-31T16:00:00
2022-03-31T17:00:00
Heavy Water: a Canadian (and BC) story
Event Information:
In the mid-90s I found myself, as a member of the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) collaboration, a recipient and custodian of 1000 tonnes of “spare” heavy water, book value $300M. How such a rare asset came to exist in Canada is a complex story of nuclear physics, geopolitics, world war, flight and exile. For a while the tale runs along the fringe of the Manhattan Project saga, but it largely concerns reactors rather than bombs. The story crosses continents (Norway-France-Canada) in circumstances anyone familiar with the news at this moment can readily imagine. Part of it is however set far away from conflict and from well-known centres of nuclear research, in the south-eastern corner of British Columbia.
Event Location:
Hennings 201 (or via zoom)