I am excited to be participating in the TEDx Ottawa event at the end of September. The sold out event has six speakers including an Antarctic explorer and an Olympic hurdler. The theme of the event is “Who Knew?” so it is a great forum to speak about the NRU research reactor and all the achievements it has enabled, thanks to the talented men and women who built, operated and used it for the past 60 years. NRU is Canada’s most productive science facility and has touched hundreds of millions of lives, yet many people, even in Canada, do not know much about it.