Waste Management Facilities in Canada

Several inactive and decommissioned uranium mines are also managed under a CNSC licence.


Waste Management Facilities in Canada
Site Location Licensee Type of Waste Status
Chalk River Laboratories Chalk River, ON AECL Various reactor and isotope production wastes Operating/Storage with Surveillance
Douglas Point Waste Management Facility Tiverton, ON AECL Decommissioned reactor waste Storage with Surveillance
Gentilly-1 Waste Management Facility Trois-Rivières, QC AECL Decommissioned reactor waste Storage with Surveillance
Gentilly-2 Waste Management Facility Trois- Rivières, QC Hydro-Québec Operational reactor waste Operating
Nuclear Power Demonstration Waste Management Facility Rolphton, ON AECL Decommissioned reactor waste Storage with Surveillance
Pickering Waste Management Facility Pickering, ON Ontario Power Generation Re-tube reactor waste from refurbishment Operating
Point Lepreau Waste Management Facility Saint John, NB New Brunswick Power Operational reactor waste Operating
Pine Street Extension Temporary Storage Site Port Hope, ON AECL-LLRWMO Contaminated soil Operating
Port Hope Radioactive Waste Management Facility Port Hope, ON AECL-LLRWMO Contaminated soil Storage with surveillance
Bruce Power Development Radioactive Waste Operations Site 1 (RWOS 1) Tiverton, ON Ontario Power Generation Low- and intermediate-level waste from Douglas Point Waste Management Facility Storage with surveillance
Darlington Waste Management Facility Darlington, ON Ontario Power Generation Used nuclear fuel Operating
Western Waste Management Facility (WWMF) Tiverton, ON Ontario Power Generation Interim storage of low- and intermediate-level reactor waste generated at Bruce Nuclear Generating Stations A and B, Darlington Nuclear Generating Station and Pickering Nuclear Generating Stations A and B Operating
Whiteshell Laboratories Pinawa, MB AECL Research reactor waste Decommissioning
University of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta University of Alberta Various low-level waste from research labs Operating
Monserco Limited Brampton, ON   Various low level waste Operating
Mississauga Metals and Alloys Inc. Brantford, ON Mississauga Metals and Alloys Inc. Slightly contaminated metals Storage
Lakeshore Road Toronto, ON Toronto and Region Conservation Authority Contaminated soil Storage with surveillance

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