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Engineering physics professor and nuclear safety expert John Luxat is bringing five decades of experience in the field of nuclear energy to a new role as Senior Advisor — Nuclear Energy in the Office of the Vice-President, Research.

Fedoruk Centre Project Advisor, Prof. John Luxat, appointed senior advisor on nuclear energy at McMaster University

Engineering physics professor and nuclear safety expert John Luxat is bringing five decades of experience in the field of nuclear energy to a new role as Senior Advisor — Nuclear E...

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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...

The glowing core of the McMaster Nuclear Reactor is the source of neutrons for the neutron beam lab currently under development. Building on existing domestic capabilities, including full exploitation of the McMaster Nuclear Reactor (MNR), a medium-brightness neutron source, is one of the four key objectives of the national neutron strategy. (Photo by McMaster University)

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.

University of Regina physicist Zisis Papandreou holds a Gadolinium Aluminium Gallium Garnet (GAGG) scintillator, surrounded by a white light diffuser that mixes light uniformly inside of it. Immune to magnetic fields, GAGGs are used in modern clinical systems that have a PET (Positron Emission Tomography) scanner inside MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imagine) systems in hospitals. (Photo by Trevor Hopkin)

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...

Researchers at the Fedoruk Centre, Usask.

Making a Difference

By: Kathryn Warden

USask Research Centres Help to Combat COVID-19 Pandemic

University executives from across Canada met with their nation's Chief Science Advisor Mona Nemer and other neutron science stakeholders—including from ESS, ILL and LENS—in Ottawa on Wednesday to discuss how to establish a new, pan-Canadian, university-led organisation for materials research with neutron beams. Photo: Fedoruk Centre

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

John Root, executive director of the University of Saskatchewan's Fedoruk Centre for Nuclear Innovation, said small modular reactors could provide the province with significant volumes of emission-free power. (Jason Warick/CBC)

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...

The amended partnership agreement was signed today by (L-R) Jeremy Rayner, CSIP Director; Doug Moen, JSGS Executive Director; Tom Kishchuk, Chair of the Fedoruk Centre Board; and John Root, Fedoruk Centre Executive Director

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...

Tom Kishchuk Chair of Board of Directors

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 ...

University of Saskatchewan Radiation Safety Officer Matt Hutcheson with the PET-CT unit in the Western College of Veterinary Medicine. (Photo: James Shewaga)

Radiation safety officer offers campus collaboration

By: Ashley Dopko

For University of Saskatchewan (USask) Radiation Safety Officer Matthew Hutcheson, safety is in the details.

Dr. Elaheh Khozeimeh Sarbisheh (PhD) earned a graduate degree in chemistry and is a post-doctoral fellow working with a cancer research team led by Dr. Eric Price (PhD) at the University of Saskatchewan. (Photo: James Shewaga)

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

Prof. Essam Hussein

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...

Dr. Eric Price (PhD) is an assistant professor in the College of Arts and Science’s Department of Chemistry. (Photo by Debra Marshall for SHRF)

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.

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