CNS

Speakers:           Michele Lunney, Vice President of Business Development North America for OARO

Speaker:   Justin Hannah, Director, Nuclear Energy Division, Natural Resources Canada Summary:   An overview of Canada’s SMR Action Plan will be presented. Canada’s SMR Action Plan was launched on December 18th, 2020. The Action Plan is the result of a pan-Canadian effort bringing together key enablers from across Canada, including the federal government, provinces and territories, municipalities, Indigenous […]

Title:   Career Planning and Emerging Trends for Engineers in the Nuclear Industry Date/time:   Tuesday March 15, 2022,  4:00 PM to 5:00 PM Speaker:   Ruben Oris Valiente,  Vice-President, Nuclear Steam Plant Engineering, SNC-Lavalin Summary:   The presentation’s objective is to provide a contemporary, albeit personal, look at opportunities and potential career paths available to engineers in the nuclear industry, how […]

Starting with an outline of fundamental approaches for nuclear fusion, basic challenges are identified that must be overcome to arrive at commercially viable fusion energy generation. The challenges require expertise and innovative ideas found not only in the sciences, but also the fields of engineering, economics, and social sciences. Fusion has the potential of providing […]

Dear colleagues! I invite you and your colleagues to join the open online marathon INUDECO "Challenges of Ukraine's nuclear energy in wartime".The event will take place on April 27-28, 2022. Organizers: Slavutych City Council, Institute for Nuclear Power Plant Safety of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Ukrainian Nuclear Society. The task of the conference is […]

CNS Sheridan Park Branch invites you to participate in the following virtual presentation: Speaker:   Doug McDonald,  BWRX-300 Product Manager,  GE Hitachi Nuclear Summary:   GE-Hitachi SMR Presentation: The BWRX-300 (BWRX-300 (gepower.com) is a 300 MWe water-cooled, natural circulation Small Modular Reactor (SMR) with passive safety systems that leverages the design and licensing basis of GEH's U.S. NRC-certified […]

Speaker:   Dr. Jerry Cuttler,  D.Sc., P. Eng., Former Engineering Manager at Atomic Energy of Canada Limited Summary:   The presentation demonstrates that a credible accident would not cause any radiation-induced thyroid cancers in the surrounding population. The purpose of pre-distributing these pills is compliance with the precautionary principle policy that was adopted in 1960 by the […]