TVB Associates was pleased to have a strategic role supporting McMaster University in a national proposal for a $36M project for infrastructure for neutron beams. This project, entitled “Building a Future for Canadian Neutron Scattering. Part 2”, was supported by 16 universities across Canada. The Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) announced its contribution to the project, $13.5M through its 2025 Innovation Fund competition, in March 2026.
Project initiation awaits decisions for matching contributions from provincial governments.
Project Summary (as announced by CFI)
Enabling advanced materials breakthroughs with real-world impact: The Canadian Neutron and Positron Beam Laboratory (CNBL) at the McMaster Nuclear Reactor offers the only access to neutron beams in Canada. These beams reveal internal material structures that other scientific tools simply can’t detect. With CFI-funded equipment at this core facility, research teams in partnership with industry are developing technologies to safely store nuclear fuel, capture carbon dioxide, innovate battery design and explore new superconducting materials for fusion energy, quantum processors and next-generation MRI technology.
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