In Canadian chemist Les Cook’s slightly homespun nuclear memoir, he offers many interesting perspectives.
Canadians today may be surprised to learn how the scientific and conceptual engineering contributions to the initiation of the Chalk River project, or to the first two reactors at Chalk River, ZEEP and NRX, all came from outsiders. Indeed the first really new basic conceptual innovation contributed by Canadian engineers came only 13 years later in 1957 – the idea of using pressure tubes running right through the core of the reactors, and continuous on-line refuelling, instead of a single pressure vessel outside the core.
Cook, Leslie G. 1987. The Birthpangs of CANDU: The Chalk River Story. Leslie G. Cook, Canada, p. 6.
