United States secrecy about

Determining the exact consumption of antistatic products is difficult due to commercial secrecy. The world consumption for hydrophilic-type antistatic agents has been estimated for 1983 at 11,400 t, with an average growth rate of about 6.0% per y (146). The estimated average consumption of hydrophilic-type antistatic agents in the United States over time is given in Table 9. 

To build its research reactors, the Montreal lab needed a remote location that would enhance secrecy and isolate potential radioactive hazards from large centres of population. To this end it shifted its base of operations to Chalk River - a Canadian Pacific Railway division point on the south side of the Ottawa River about one hundred and thirty miles Northwest of Ottawa. Engineers and construction workers descended on the wilderness outpost and began constructing nuclear-research facilities. The first was the Zero Energy Experimental Pile (ZEEP), a small heavy-water reactor. Its start-up on September 5, 1945 - just a month after Hiroshima and Nagasaki - marked the first successful peaceful atomic reaction outside the United States. 

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