Canada did not supply plutonium during the war. Their first reactor didn't go critical until after the war ended. They did however contribute research, and polonium.
Good paper summary (one author is current lab director of Los Alamos)
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
Good paper summary (one author is current lab director of Los Alamos)
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
https://twitter.com/LundeenOttawa/status/1471252780321054720
This tweet is also confusing facts. CP-1 was the first nuclear reactor, in Chicago. ZEEP was Canada's first reactor, in Chalk River. It was not the 2nd reactor in the world, the US created multiple reactors during the war, before CA (X-10, B reactor, etc)
https://twitter.com/LundeenOttawa/status/1471252784615989258?t=QMsPkjjrWNN4A2AmpbwWiQ&s=19
Canada is the second country to have built a nuclear reactor. ZEEP is the first non-US reactor. These are true ways to recognize the historical significance of ZEEP. Calling it the "second nuclear reactor, after CP-1" is just not true
https://twitter.com/nuclearkatie/status/1471492064835604480
Aside: is CP-2 its own reactor? CP-1 was dismantled, moved, rebuilt, and slightly modified to produce CP-2. I have excluded it, but maybe others would consider it another reactor.
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