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Downtown reactor: Dr. Ron Hancock, in the reactor room of U of T's Slowpoke, checks over a device that holds uranium rods.
Downtown reactor: Dr. Ron Hancock, in the reactor room of U of T's Slowpoke, checks over a device that holds uranium rods.

Downtown reactor: Dr. Ron Hancock, in the reactor room of U of T's Slowpoke, checks over a device that holds uranium rods.

Date5/1/1990
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  • Downtown reactor: Dr. Ron Hancock, in the reactor room of U of T's Slowpoke, checks over a device that holds uranium rods.
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      Hot rods: Technicians work on the reactor tubes, which contain 6,240 bundles of uranium fuel rods
      Hot rods: Technicians work on the reactor tubes, which contain 6,240 bundles of uranium fuel rods
      Mahler, John
      8/29/1989
      Workmen check fueling rods on reactor under construction, above, in station's control room, are right, Bill Harvey, Henry Stevens and first operator Mike Stone
      Workmen check fueling rods on reactor under construction, above, in station's control room, are right, Bill Harvey, Henry Stevens and first operator Mike Stone
      Bock, Tony
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      Roland Krause of Atomic Energy of Canada, in Mississuga, holds a model of a uranium bundle that cost $700 and, when placed in a nuclear reactor, produces as much energy as 100,000 gallons of oil
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      Deep in the heart of one four nuclear reactors at Pickering power station, technicians prepare tubes that will contain fuel rods when the plant begins producing power within tow months
      Deep in the heart of one four nuclear reactors at Pickering power station, technicians prepare tubes that will contain fuel rods when the plant begins producing power within tow months
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      Schematic diagram of a heavy water-natural uranium power reactor system
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      1955
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      Trouble spot: Jack Muir, Pickering spokesman, points to problem area on model of reactor (above), and holds fuel bundle (right)
      Dunlop, Al
      8/18/1983
      I. W. Smith sits at the wheel -- and the special guidance device -- of a van his students designed for quadriplegics. Smith directs a project-oriented course at U of T's Cockburn Centre for Engineering Design.
      I. W. Smith sits at the wheel -- and the special guidance device -- of a van his students designed for quadriplegics. Smith directs a project-oriented course at U of T's Cockburn Centre for Engineering Design.
      Olsen, Bob, 1931-2022
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      L to R, Stefen Salij, John Mitchell, Bill Hutchison quality control techinicians check out on the monitors what the techs inside the reactor are checking, they are in voice contact
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      Ross, Fred
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      Bachelorhood may not be the carefree, glamorous state society thinks it is. To find out U of T's Dr. Rubin Todres, left, and his students are doing a research project on unmarried men. Dennis Long and Carmel Keating are in class.
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