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Waterkeeper reviews nuclear safety report, environmental protection performance
PortHope RadioactiveWaste Posted by Lake Ontario Waterkeeper PortHope RadioactiveWaste Posted by Lake Ontario Waterkeeper

Waterkeeper reviews nuclear safety report, environmental protection performance

The CNSC asked Lake Ontario Waterkeeper to review its 2016 Oversight Report for uranium and nuclear substances processing facilities, which goes over operating performance centred around health and safety of its facilities. Read Waterkeeper's findings here, including 11 recommendations and a focus on the Port Hope Conversion Facility.

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What you need to know about the Port Hope Area radioactive waste cleanup
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What you need to know about the Port Hope Area radioactive waste cleanup

The Port Hope Area Initiative is the largest environmental cleanup effort in Canadian history. Ottawa is spending $1.28-billion to contain 1.7-million cubic metres (m³) of low-level radioactive waste in Port Hope and Port Granby. But why does the project cost so much money? Just how much waste is 1.7-million m³? Where did all this waste come from? Where is it going? The answers to those questions start back in 1932.

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