Chalk River Laboratories
Chalk River Laboratories seen from the Ottawa River
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| Established | 1944 |
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| Research type | Applied |
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Field of research
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Nuclear physics |
| Address | 286 Plant Road |
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Chalk River, Ontario, Canada 46°03′01″N 77°21′40″W / 46.050242°N 77.361002°WCoordinates: 46°03′01″N 77°21′40″W / 46.050242°N 77.361002°W |
| Campus | 3,700 ha (9,100 acres) |
| Affiliations | Atomic Energy of Canada Limited |
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Operating agency
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Canadian National Energy Alliance |
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Chalk River Laboratories (French: Laboratoires de Chalk River; also known as CRL, Chalk River Labs and formerly Chalk River Nuclear Laboratories) is a Canadian nuclear research facility in Deep River, Renfrew County, Ontario, near Chalk River, about 180 km (110 mi) north-west of Ottawa.
CRL is a site of major research and development to support and advance nuclear technology, in particular CANDU reactor technology. CRL has expertise in physics, metallurgy, chemistry, biology, and engineering and unique research facilities. For example, Bertram Brockhouse, a professor at McMaster University, received the 1994 Nobel Prize in Physics for his pioneering work in neutron spectroscopy while at CRL from 1950-1962. Sir John Cockcroft was an early director of CRL and also a Nobel laureate. CRL produces a large share of the world's supply of medical radioisotopes. It is owned by the Canadian Nuclear Laboratories subsidiary of Atomic Energy of Canada Limited and operated under contract by the Canadian National Energy Alliance, a private-sector consortium led by SNC-Lavalin.
The facility arose out of a 1942 collaboration between British and Canadian nuclear researchers which saw a Montreal research laboratory established under the National Research Council (NRC). By 1944 the Chalk River Laboratories were opened and in September, 1945 the facility saw the first nuclear reactor outside of the United States become operational (see Lew Kowarski). In 1946, NRC closed the Montreal laboratory and focused its resources on Chalk River.
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