National Research Universal Reactor
Coordinates: 46°3′15.53″N 77°21′52.12″W / 46.0543139°N 77.3644778°W / 46.0543139; -77.3644778 The National Research Universal (NRU) reactor is a 135 MWt nuclear research reactor built in the Chalk River Laboratories, Ontario, one of Canada’s national science facilities. It is a multipurpose science facility that serves three main roles. It generates isotopes used to treat or diagnose over 20 million people in 80 countries every year (and, to a lesser extent, other isotopes used for non-medical purposes). It is the neutron source for the NRC Canadian Neutron Beam Centre: a materials research centre that grew from the Nobel Prize-winning work of Bertram Brockhouse. It is the test bed for Atomic Energy of Canada Limited to develop fuels and materials for the CANDU reactor.
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