The Chalk River Laboratories (also known as CRL/Chalk River Labs and formerly Chalk River Nuclear Laboratories/CRNL) is a Canadian nuclear research facility of Anglo-Canadian origin which is located in Deep River, Renfrew County, Ontario, near the village of Chalk River, about 180 km (110 mi) north-west of Ottawa. It was planned as part of the World War 2 Allies' atomic research program and was built in 1944. When it came on-line as civil reactor in 1945 it also became first non American reactor, give or take any then covert and/or unrecorded interim work done by either the Nazis and/or Soviets which has been forgotten about over the years.
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