Resources

Neutrons Canada Reports and Publications

• • Brief for the House of Commons Standing Committee on Science and Research’s study on dual-use research (May 2026)
  • Brief to the House of Commons Finance Committee’s pre-budget consultations (May 2026)
  • 2-Page Briefing on “Investing in Sovereignty of Capability” (November 2025)
  • Canadian Neutron Long-Range Plan for 2025 to 2035 (August 2024)

• • The Impact of Major Research Facilities as National Assets: Responding to the Report of the Advisory Panel on the Federal Research Support System Canadian Science Policy Conference Session Report (November 2023)

• • Neutrons Canada Prospectus (Updated August 2023)

Strategic reports and articles leading to Neutrons Canada’s creation

• • National Neutron Strategy (2022)

• • Neutrons Canada Prospectus (ARCHIVED – 2021)

• • Neutron-scattering equipment set to make return to Canada thanks to CFI funding (2021)

• • CNI-CIFAR Roundtable on a National Neutron Strategy (2021)

• • “Neutrons Canada” Roundtable (2020)

• • CNI Brief to the House of Commons Finance Committee’s pre-budget consultations (2018)

• • House of Commons Finance Committee report on its consultations for the 2019 budget (2018)

• • Canada’s Fundamental Science Review (2017)

• • House of Commons Finance Committee report on its consultations for the 2018 budget (2017)

• • Government of Canada response to the House of Commons Natural Resources Committee report on the nuclear sector (2017)
  • CINS “Planning to 2050” (2015 update)

Neutrons Canada Policies

Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Policy Statement

Neutrons Canada in the news

Tim Lougheed. “No charge, but plenty of value.” Research Money. Nov 2022

Canadian neutron beam context

• • Scientific, Social and Economic Impacts of Canadian Materials Research with Neutron Beams

• • CINS-CNI Survey: Canadian demand for neutron beams (2020)

• • A Compact Accelerator‐based Neutron Source for Canada? (2019)

• • 70 years of scientific impact using neutron beams at the Chalk River Laboratories (2019)

• • Study of CNBC Performance and Impacts (2019)

• • Bibliometric study on CNBC’s scientific publications 1980-2017 (2018)

• • Canada’s Neutron Source, the NRU reactor, closes (2018)

• • 70 Years of Neutron Scattering in Canada (2018)

Global neutron beam context

• • Neutron sources around the world (Listing by NIST)

• • NeutronSources.org

• • Assessment of the retrospective and prospective economic impacts of investments in U.S. neutron research sources and facilities from 1960 to 2030 (2024)

• • The Scientific Justification for a U.S. Domestic High-Performance Reactor-Based Research Facility (2020)

• • Neutrons for the Nation, American Physical Society (2018)

• • Neutron Science in Europe (2022)

• • Low Energy accelerator-driven Neutron Sources for Europe (2021)

• • League of European Neutron Sources in the context of Horizon Europe (2019)

• • Neutron Sources in Europe (2016)