CNS CANDU Thermalhydraulics Course

2021 November 18-19 (Thursday-Friday, Toronto Time) Course held on-line (Connection details to be communicated later after your registration) Program & Brochure  Click here for the program and course brochure Course Overview The first Canadian Nuclear Society (CNS) Thermalhydaulics Course was held in Toronto on December 4-5 2017. We are now offering the second CNS Thermalhydaulics […]

Canada’s Small Modular Reactor (SMR) Action Plan

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 […]

CNS Sheridan Park Branch – Career Planning and Emerging Trends for Engineers in the Nuclear Industry

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 […]

CNS Wester Branch Webinar – Nuclear Fusion: Canadian Perspectives, Challenges and Opportunities

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 […]

Invitation – INUDECO Online Marathon

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 […]

GE-Hitachi SMR BWRX-300 Presentation

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 […]

CNS Sheridan Park Branch invites you to participate in:  Is it appropriate to pre-distribute potassium-iodide (KI) pills around nuclear power plants?

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 […]

2022 CNS Annual Conference

2022 is promising to be an exciting year for Canada’s nuclear industry. With possible new reactors identified for installation in Canada, we are moving into an era of advanced reactor technologies. Join us to learn, share and hear about the latest developments at the 2022 CNS annual Conference. The 2022 CNS Annual Conference will be […]

2022 Fuel Conference

CALL FOR PAPERS Following the success of the 14th conference held in Mississauga, Ontario in 2019, the 15th International Conference on CANDU Fuel to be held in Ajax, Ontario on August 21-24, 2022, will once again bring together international nuclear fuel industry experts involved in research, design, fabrication, operations, fuel modelling, safety analysis and regulation. […]

4th International Conference on Generation IV and Small Reactors (G4SR-4)

The Canadian Nuclear Society (CNS) is hosting the in-person 4th International Conference on Generation IV and Small Reactors (G4SR-4) in cooperation with international partners in industry and government. G4SR-4 will be a 4-day international conference in Delta Hotel Toronto Airport and Conference Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada on October 3-6, 2022. G4SR-4 will be co-located and run parallel […]