TRIUMF

$5,000,000.00 CAD

≈ 65 Canadians' average pay for a year
Department
National Research Council Canada
Program
Contribution to TRIUMF (Canada’s National Laboratory for Particle and Nuclear Physics)
Recipient country
Canada
Fiscal year
2020-2021
Agreement period
October 1, 2020 – October 31, 2020
Reference
nrc-cnrc:172-2020-2021-Q3-00001

Published purpose

NRC provides contribution funding for the operation, mantenance and enhancement of the Facility. The TRIUMF facility houses a particle accelerator, reffered to as a cyclotron, that produces beams of mesons and other particles used by Canadian and foreign researchers for fundamental research in subatomic physics.

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NRC provides $5 million in contribution funding to TRIUMF, Canada's national laboratory for particle and nuclear physics, to support the operation, maintenance, and enhancement of its cyclotron facility used for subatomic physics research by Canadian and foreign researchers.

Category: Research Primarily funds activity in Canada

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