Port Hope Project

Backgrounder

The Port Hope Project involves the design, licensing and construction of an engineered above-ground low-level nuclear waste management facility. The facility will be located at the site of the existing Welcome Waste Management Facility in the municipality of Port Hope and is expected to be completed by the end of 2022.

Funding for the construction of this facility is part of the Port Hope Area Initiative (PHAI), which commits the Government of Canada to the cleanup and safe long-term management of historic low-level radioactive waste within the neighbouring Ontario municipalities of Port Hope and Clarington.

The historic waste resulted from radium and uranium processing in Port Hope between 1933 and 1988 by the former Crown corporation Eldorado Nuclear Limited and its private sector predecessors. 

The PHAI is based on a 2001 legal agreement between the Government of Canada and the local municipalities of Port Hope and Clarington to carry out the cleanup.  A Government of Canada investment of $1.28 billion over 10 years was announced in 2012 for the implementation phase of the PHAI, which is being led by Canadian Nuclear Laboratories on behalf of Atomic Energy of Canada Limited.     

The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission, Canada’s independent nuclear regulator, is responsible for licensing, regulating and monitoring the activities carried out under the Port Hope Area Initiative.

Contact

Laurel Munroe
Director of Communications
Office of the Minister of Natural Resources
343-292-6837

Media Relations
Natural Resources Canada
Ottawa
343-292-6100

Follow us on Twitter: @NRCan (http://twitter.com/nrcan)

NRCan’s news releases and backgrounders are available at www.nrcan.gc.ca/media


Search for related information by keyword

Hon. James Gordon Carr Natural Resources Canada Nature and Environment

Page details

Date modified: