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.
Remarks by Rumina Velshi at the NEA Workshop on the Management of Spent Fuel, Radioactive Waste and Decommissioning in SMRs or Advanced Reactor Technologies
On November 1, 2022, Rumina Velshi, CNSC President and CEO, delivered a virtual keynote address at the International Conference on Disruptive, Innovative and Emerging Technologies (DIET) in the Nuclear Industry.
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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.
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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.
Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission President and CEO Rumina Velshi delivered a keynote address on leadership to the graduating class of the World Nuclear University Summer Institute in Madrid on Thursday, July 21, 2022.
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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.