TRIUMF

$268,397,855.00 CAD

≈ $6.48 for every person in Canada ≈ 3,469 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 31, 2020 – March 21, 2025
Reference
nrc-cnrc:172-2020-2021-Q3-00002

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 funding to TRIUMF, Canada's national laboratory for particle and nuclear physics, to operate, maintain, and enhance its cyclotron facility, which produces particle beams for fundamental subatomic research by Canadian and foreign scientists.

Category: Research Primarily funds activity in Canada

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