Fedoruk Centre News
An unexpected career
By: Brianna Bergeron
Ten years ago, Amber Thomas was getting her Adult 12 at Saskatchewan Polytechnic. Today, she’s an operations technologist at the Sylvia Fedoruk Canadian Centre for Nuclear Innovati...
An Emerging National Neutron Strategy in Canada
By: Anne Ballantyne and Daniel Banks
The Canadian neutron beam community is aligning around an emerging strategy to rebuild Canadian capacity for materials research and development with neutron beams.
Physics and the principles of collaboration
By: Lynette Piper
U of R physicist Zisis Papandreou and his team have built the Generation II BioPETx nuclear imaging detector-one of the world's most advanced tools for looking inside living plants...
Neutrons Canada
By: BrightnESS²
On Wednesday, January 29, the Canadian Neutron Initiative (CNI) working group took a major step toward their goal. On behalf of the working group, the Sylvia Fedoruk Canadian Centr...
Opinion: Saskatchewan should consider enriching its uranium
By: Essam Husein
Uranium enrichment and fabrication of SMR fuel could become a new industry, close to the sources of natural uranium in Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan opinions about small modular reactors
(2019 Dec 2) – After Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe and his counterparts from Ontario and New Brunswick announced their agreement to cooperate in researching the introduction of sm...
Can small modular nuclear reactors power Saskatchewan?
John Root was interviewed by the Saskatoon Global News morning program about nuclear energy and the idea of small modular reactors (SMRs) as an option for Saskatchewan’s energy mix...
Partnership Extended
The Fedoruk Centre Board of Directors unanimously approved a two-year extension of our partnership with the Johnson Shoyama Graduate School for Public Policy (JSGS), supporting the...
New chair for the Fedoruk Centre at USask
SASKATOON – Prominent Saskatchewan business leader Tom Kishchuk will serve as the new chair of the board of directors for the Sylvia Fedoruk Canadian Centre for Nuclear Innovation ...
Radiation safety officer offers campus collaboration
By: Ashley Dopko
For University of Saskatchewan (USask) Radiation Safety Officer Matthew Hutcheson, safety is in the details.
USask researcher finds her chemistry destiny
By: James Shewaga
She came halfway around the world to work on a global problem, and University of Saskatchewan (USask) cancer researcher Dr. Elaheh Khozeimeh Sarbisheh (PhD) couldn’t imagine being ...
$11.6M to help Fedoruk Centre support nuclear research and training (Global News)
By: Doug Lett and Thomas Piller
Saskatchewan Minister Tina Beaudry-Mellor announces 5-year commitment of baseline funding for the Fedoruk Centre
Province announces $11.6 million for U of S nuclear innovation centre (Saskatoon StarPhoenix)
By: Amanda Short
Professor Aram Temurazyan (University of Regina) introduces the BioPETx
Moe touts talks on small 'safe' nuclear reactors (Regina Leader-Post)
By: Arthur White-Crummey
Prof. Esam Hussein (University of Regina) interviewed following Premier Moe’s comments that smaller nuclear reactors might be an option for Saskatchewan power mix when coal is phas...
USask researcher one of 30 ‘rising stars’ in nuclear medicine and molecular imaging
By: Shannon Boklaschuk
A University of Saskatchewan (USask) researcher has been recognized as one of 30 rising stars worldwide in the field of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging.
The Conversation: Good nuclear policy should combine research, innovation and public engagement
In Saskatchewan, nuclear research is being conducted with medical and energy applications. The public should be consulted when developing nuclear policy to apply and benefit from t...
Colorectal cancer cells killed by assassin antibody, USask team finds
By: USask Research Profile and Impact
Colorectal cancer is the second leading cause of death from cancer in North America and is often diagnosed at an advanced stage, after it has spread to other parts of the body. Pat...
New USask treatment for bone cancer in young people and dogs
Human and veterinary cancer specialists at USask have been awarded $765,000 in federal funding to develop a new treatment for osteosarcoma, a type of bone cancer that particularly ...