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Remarks by Rumina Velshi at the 2021+1 ICRP Symposium

| Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission | speeches

What is safe? How do we decide what actions are safe enough? When does a reasonable risk veer into an unreasonable one? Who makes this decision? In the case of the use of nuclear energy and substances in Canada, these questions fall to the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission.


OAG performance audit concludes low- and intermediate-level radioactive waste is effectively regulated in Canada

| Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission | news releases

Today, the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) welcomed the findings of the performance audit carried out by the Office of the Auditor General (OAG) on the management of low- and intermediate-level radioactive waste, which was tabled in Parliament by the OAG’s Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development.


CNSC amends Cameco’s Beaverlodge waste facility operating licence

| Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission | news releases

Today, the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission announced the Commission’s decision to amend the waste facility operating licence held by Cameco Corporation for the decommissioned Beaverlodge mine and mill site.


Commission seeks additional information regarding Indigenous consultation, for Canadian Nuclear Laboratories’ application to authorize construction of a near surface disposal facility

| Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission | news releases

Today, the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) announced the Commission’s issuance of a procedural direction in the matter of an application from Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL). CNL’s application was for an amendment to its nuclear research and test establishment operating licence for Chalk River Laboratories (CRL), to authorize the construction of a near surface disposal facility for solid low-level radioactive waste at the CRL site. The CRL site is located in Deep River, Ontario.


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