Gordon Brooks

____ordon Brooks was born in Edmonton, Alberta on
____November 4, 1930 (Gordon Brooks, 1992). Brooks graduated the University of Alberta in Chemical engineering (Gordon Brooks, 1992). He moved to Deep River, Ontario, to work at the Chalk River labs (Gordon Brooks, 1992). Brooks also worked at the Sheridan Park Research Centre (Gordon Brooks, 1992). Brooks was the first General Manager of Power Projects in Montreal and built the Gentilly-1(Gordon Brooks, 1992), a light water coolant nuclear reactor prototype that demonstrated the advantage of using heavy water as the coolant rather that light water (Whitlock, 2007). Brooks retired in 1991 as the CANDU Operations Vice President and Chief Engineer (Gordon Brooks, 1992).