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2010

September

• September 07 - Final deadline for public comments on OPG's Environmental Impact Statement and Application for a Licence to Prepare a Site (Source: CEAA Web site)
• September 07 - Presentation by CNSC President Michael Binder to the Greenlandic Delegation
• September 03 - Perspectives on Nuclear Issues: Nuclear Energy Agency report - Comparing Nuclear Accident Risks with Those from Other Energy Sources (source: NEA Web site)
• September 02 - CNSC to hold public meeting on September 30, 2010
• September 01 - CNSC invites you to a presentation by Ian Grant on establishing the nuclear safety infrastructure in the United Arab Emirates

August

• August 27 - CNSC invites you to comment on draft regulatory document RD-334, Aging Management for Nuclear Power Plants
• August 25 - Record of Proceedings - AECL - Request for the Approval of the Return to Service of the NRU Reactor
• August 25 - AECL NRU Status Report #73 - AECL reports that the NRU has resumed full production of medical isotopes (source: AECL's Web site)
• August 24 - Commission Tribunal meeting transcript for August 19, 2010
• August 24 - Now available: 2009 National Sealed Source Registry and Sealed Source Tracking System Annual Report
• August 23 - Invitation to comment on draft Guidance Document GD-369, Licence Application Guide: Licence to Construct a Nuclear Power Plant
• August 19 - Public Meeting Webcast begins at 9 a.m.
• August 18 - NRU Status Update #71: NRU Reactor Harvests First Isotopes (source: AECL Web site)
• August 17 - August 18 public hearing rescheduled to a later date
• August 17 - Trade and economic sanctions imposed on Iran under the Special Economic Measures Act (SEMA)
• August 17 - CNSC 101 Sessions in Oshawa and Saskatoon in September
• August 17 - AECL NRU Status Report #70 (source: AECL's Web site)
• August 16 - Updated information document: Licensing Process for New Uranium Mines and Mills in Canada (INFO-0759, Revision 1)
• August 16 - Presentation by CNSC President Michael Binder at the Uranium 2010 Conference
• August 12 - The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers recognizes TRIUMF's main cyclotron (source: TRIUMF Web site)
• August 09 - CNSC response to the article entitled 'Gentilly-2 : Hydro suspend des contrats' published in Le Nouvelliste on August 6, 2010
• August 04 - AECL NRU Status Report #68 (source: AECL's Web site)
• August 04 - CNSC monitoring Northern Saskatchewan forest fires near uranium mines and mills

July

• July 30 - Mahmoud Yadegari sentenced in Ontario Court of Justice for offences under the NSCA
• July 29 - CNSC announces a public hearing on Bruce Power’s proposed plan to ship steam generators to Sweden
• July 29 - Notice to licensees of Am-241/Be and Cf-252 neutron sources
• July 29 - Presentation by CNSC President Michael Binder to the Canadian Nuclear Law Organization
• July 28 - AECL NRU Status Update #67 (source: AECL Web site)
• July 26 - CNSC Presentation to Owen Sound City Council on the transportation of steam generators to Sweden
• July 22 - Statement from Bruce Power regarding Sierra Club letter (source: Bruce Power Web site)
• July 21 - Point Lepreau Generating Station Refurbishment Project Update (source: AECL web site)
• July 15 - CNSC requests additional information from Cameco about its Port Hope Conversion Facility emissions
• July 14 - Information update on Bruce Power’s proposed plan to ship 16 steam generators to Sweden
• July 14 - Transcript of the July 5 public hearing regarding Saskatchewan Research Council: Opportunity to be heard
• July 12 - Update: Potential Alpha Exposure of Workers - CNSC Request to all CANDU licensees (AECL and OPG responses)
• July 09 - Update: Potential Alpha Exposure of Workers - CNSC Request to all CANDU licensees
• July 09 - Upcoming decertification of a GammaMat M10 exposure device
• July 07 - AECL NRU Status Update #64 (source: AECL Web site)
• July 07 - CNSC authorizes restart of NRU reactor
• July 07 - Licence renewal applications for GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy Canada Inc.: Notice of public hearings
• July 07 - Now available: CNSC Staff Review Procedures for new nuclear power plant applications
• July 07 - Transcript of the July 5 public hearing regarding the restart of the NRU
• July 05 - New comment on Discussion Paper DIS-10-01 'Management of Uranium Mine Waste Rock and Mill Tailings' posted for feedback (Update to Information Bulletins 10-12 and 10-14)
• July 05 - Today at 2:30 p.m: Webcast of the public hearing to consider AECL's application for the restart of the National Research Universal (NRU) reactor
• July 05 - Saskatchewan Research Council: Opportunity to be heard today on the Designated Officer Order issued on June 18, 2010 (Agenda item #4)

June

• June 30 - AECL NRU Status Report #63 (source: AECL Web site)
• June 30 - SRBT's operating licence renewed
• June 30 - Publication of regulatory document 'Accounting and Reporting of Nuclear Materials' (RD-336) and its associated guidance document (GD-336)
• June 29 - Pickering A Nuclear Generating Station licence renewed
• June 29 - Agenda for July 5 public hearing on the NRU restart
• June 29 - Update to Information Bulletin 10-12: New comment on Discussion Paper DIS-10-01 'Management of Uranium Mine Waste Rock and Mill Tailings' posted for feedback
• June 28 - Canada and India sign a nuclear cooperation agreement (source: Prime Minister's Web site)
• June 25 - AECL NRU Status Report #62 (source: AECL Web site)
• June 25 - NRU restart hearing date rescheduled for July 5, 2010
• June 24 - CNSC issues request for action to AECL and OPG
• June 23 - AECL NRU Status Report #61 (source: AECL Web site)
• June 23 - Follow-Up to Ottawa Earthquake
• June 21 - Order to Saskatchewan Research Council
• June 21 - CNSC issues request for action to CANDU licensees
• June 18 - CNSC issues a request for corrective action to Bruce Power
• June 17 - Order to C.T. Soil & Materials Testing Inc.
• June 17 - Presentation by Ramzi Jammal, Executive Vice President and the Chief Regulatory Operations Officer at the Annual Scientific Meeting of the Canadian Organization of Medical Physicists
• June 16 - AECL NRU Status Report #60: AECL reports that one hundred per cent (100%) of the NRU weld repairs are now complete. (source: AECL's Web site)
• June 16 - CNSC Launches Radiation Web Pages
• June 16 - CNSC releases Tritium Studies Project Synthesis Report
• June 16 - CNSC announces hearing date for NRU restart: June 28 at 9 a.m.
• June 15 - Public invited to comment on CNSC Staff Integrated Safety Assessment of Canadian Nuclear Power Plants for 2009 report by July 16
• June 14 - Presentation by Terry Jamieson, Vice-President, Technical Support Branch at a World Institute for Nuclear Security Workshop
• June 14 - Invitation to provide feedback on the public comments received about Discussion Paper DIS-10-01 Management of Uranium Mine Waste Rock and Mill Tailings
• June 11 - One-day public hearing to consider AECL application for the restart of the NRU
• June 11 - Update to regulatory action issued on June 1, 2010 to Elekta Inc. and Southlake Regional Health Centre
• June 10 - Directorate of Nuclear Substance Regulation Newsletter - Spring 2010 Edition
• June 10 - CNSC response to the article entitled "New nuclear power plants carry more risk, report finds" published in the Ottawa Citizen on May 31, 2010
• June 09 - CNSC Public Information Session in Makkovik on June 9 has been cancelled due to weather.
• June 09 - CNSC response to the article entitled "Une question de santé – Dix bonnes raisons de dire non à Gentilly-2" published in Le Devoir on May 31, 2010
• June 07 - CNSC decertifies exposure device operator
• June 07 - Presentation by CNSC President Michael Binder at the Royal Military College
• June 07 - Order to Canada Engineering Services Inc.
• June 04 - Heavy Water Spill at Gentilly-2
• June 03 - The Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO) publishes the Process for Selecting a Site for Canada’s Deep Geological Repository for Used Nuclear Fuel
• June 02 - Order to Southlake Regional Health Centre
• June 02 - Order to Elekta Inc.
• June 02 - Order to SPL Consultants Limited
• June 02 - Government of Canada Launches Process to Diversify and Enhance Isotope Supply Chain (source: NRCan Web site)
• June 01 - Mythbusters: Factual information to understand nuclear science and its effect on people

May

• May 31 - Update on small, contained Bruce B Unit 6 heavy water leak (source: Bruce Power Web site)
• May 31 - Interim exemptions from the Packaging and Transport of Nuclear Substances Regulations
• May 28 - Pickering Nuclear Power Plant Information (source: OPG Web site)
• May 28 - CNSC hosting the Soil Structure Interaction Knowledge and Effect on the Seismic Assessment of NPPs Structures and Components Workshop from October 6 - 8 (source: NEA)
• May 27 - Presentation by CNSC President Michael Binder at the Canadian Nuclear Society’s 31st Annual Conference and 34th CNS-CNA Student Conference
• May 27 - Presentations by Jean LeClair to Community Members in Mistissini and Chibougamau
• May 27 - Regulations update: Amendment to Class II Nuclear Facilities and Prescribed Equipment Regulations
• May 27 - Regulations update: Regulations Amending Certain Regulations made under the Nuclear Safety and Control Act (Miscellaneous Program)
• May 27 - Regulations update: Amendments to Nuclear Non-proliferation Import and Export Control Regulations
• May 26 - Aboriginal Awareness Week: May 25 to 28, 2010 (source: TBS Web site)
• May 26 - The Joint Review Panel for the Darlington New Nuclear Power Plant Project invites the public to attend a technical session in Ottawa on June 22, 2010 (source: CEAA Web site)
• May 25 - Tritium Studies Project Synthesis Report– Participation at June 16, 2010 Public Meeting. The public is invited to comment in writing
• May 20 - Register by June 4 for CNSC 101: An Information Session for Stakeholders
• May 20 - Joint Review Panel Process for the Darlington project - Open House Information Sessions (source: CEAA web site)
• May 18 - Publication of Design Guide for Nuclear Substance Laboratories and Nuclear Medicine Rooms (GD-52)
• May 18 - Publication of Designing and Implementing a Bioassay Program (GD-150)
• May 17 - Reminder: Register by May 21 for the CNSC Industrial Radiography Meeting in Edmonton
• May 14 - Loss of waste water at Chalk River Laboratories
• May 14 - Public Comments Invited on the Draft Project-Specific Guidelines and Scoping Document for the Proposed Millennium Mine Project (source: CEAA Web site)
• May 10 - CNSC response to the letter entitled “CANDU reactors release more tritium” published in the Peace River Record Gazette on April 21, 2010
• May 07 - CNSC response to the article entitled “Uranium Update - Revisiting Strateco, their Mistissini opposition and the activism against the proposed uranium exploration project” published in The Nation on April 23, 2010
• May 06 - CNSC decertifies exposure device operator
• May 05 - CNSC response to the letter entitled “Neuf questions auxquelles M. Michael Binder devrait répondre” [Nine questions Mr. Michael Binder should answer] published on April 4, 2010, in Le Bulletin régional of Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean
• May 05 - Darlington New Nuclear Power Plant Project Joint Review Panel Process - Open House Information Sessions (Source: CEAA Web site)
• May 04 - Presentation to Community Members in Manning and Peace River, Alberta

April

• April 29 - CNSC informed of small heavy water spill at Chalk River Laboratories
• April 29 - Publication of Control of the Export and Import of Risk-Significant Radioactive Sources (INFO-0791)
• April 29 - May 4 and 5 - Public information sessions in Manning and Peace River, Alberta
• April 29 - CNSC Industrial Radiography Meetings: Edmonton - May 27, 2010 | Ottawa - June 16, 2010
• April 28 - Canada and Japan Sign Agreement on Import and Export of Radioactive Sources
• April 27 - CNSC releases Tritium Activity in Garden Produce from Pembroke in 2007 and Dose to the Public report
• April 27 - CNSC releases Health Effects, Dosimetry and Radiological Protection of Tritium report
• April 26 - CNSC response to the article entitled “Gentilly-2 : le tritium émis en trop grande quantité?” [Gentilly-2: is too much tritium being released?], published in Le Courrier Sud on April 18, 2010
• April 26 - Presentation by President Michael Binder at the International Nuclear Regulators Association
• April 23 - Reminder to register by April 27 for the CNSC Small Reactor Webinar Workshop
• April 19 - Invitation to provide feedback on the public comments received about CNSC draft RD-327 and GD-327
• April 19 - Presentation by Vice-President Ramzi Jammal at the International Forum on Nuclear Safety Challenges in the Flat, Mixed and Open World
• April 16 - CNSC response to the editorial entitled “Cleaning our own house”, published in the Ottawa Citizen on April 15, 2010
• April 16 - The Government of Canada takes another important step in the Port Hope Area Initiative (source: Canada News Centre Web Site)
• April 14 - PM welcomes closer cooperation with New Zealand (source: Prime Minister's Web site)
• April 13 - Exposure Device Incidents Reported
• April 13 - Trilateral announcement between Mexico, the United States, and Canada on nuclear security (source: Prime Minister's Web site)
• April 13 - Prime Minister Stephen Harper's remarks at the conclusion of the Nuclear Security Summit in Washington, D.C. (source: Prime Minister's Web site)
• April 13 - Communiqué of the Washington Nuclear Security Summit (source: Prime Minister's Web site)
• April 12 - PM announces a nuclear cooperation project with the United States to further secure inventories of spent highly enriched uranium (source: Prime Minister's Web site)
• April 12 - Government of Canada Welcomes International Energy Agency’s Review of Energy Policies (source: NRCan Web site)
• April 08 - The CNSC has completed Phase 1 of the Pre-Project Design Review of AECL’s Enhanced CANDU 6 Reactor
• April 01 - CNSC response to the editorial entitled “Mêlons-nous de nos affaires!” [Let’s mind our own business!] published in Le Droit on March 30, 2010

March

• March 31 - Government Responds to Expert Review Panel on Medical Isotope Production, Invests in New Technology Solutions (source: NRCan Web site)
• March 26 - NRU Status Update 48
• March 25 - Presentation by President Binder at a Public Lecture at the University of Saskatchewan
• March 25 - Codification of Current Practice: CNSC Commitment to Aboriginal Consultation
• March 25 - Invitation to comment on Discussion Paper DIS-10-01 Management of Uranium Mine Waste Rock and Mill Tailings
• March 25 - 2010-11 Report on Plans and Priorities (source: Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat Web site)
• March 25 - CNSC reply to the article entitled “Un nouveau combustible à Gentilly 2?” (New fuel for CANDU reactors?) published in Le Courrier Sud on March 18, 2010
• March 24 - CNSC response to a letter published in Le Bulletin régional on March 12, 2010, entitled "Emballement possible du réacteur CANDU à Gentilly-2"
• March 24 - Project Agreement for the Millennium Uranium Mine Project in Saskatchewan Completed (MPMO Website)
• March 23 - Impact of Budget 2010 - Federal Environmental Assessments by a Review Panel for Large Energy Projects
• March 19 - Update: Bruce A Unit 1 Alpha Contamination
• March 12 - Speech by the Honourable Christian Paradis, P.C., M.P, Minister of Natural Resources at the International Conference on Access to Civil Nuclear Energy (source: NRCan Web site)
• March 11 - Update: Bruce A Unit 1 Alpha Contamination
• March 11 - Presentation by Vice-President, Technical Support Branch, Terry Jamieson at the 22nd Annual Regulatory Information Conference
• March 09 - Presentation by President Binder at the 22nd Annual Regulatory Information Conference
• March 05 - CNSC response to the opinion article published in Le Nouvelliste on March 1, 2010 entitled "Les Québécois peuvent encore dire non"
• March 05 - CNSC releases Evaluation of Facilities Handling Tritium report
• March 04 - The CNSC responds to an article in Le Devoir on positive coolant void reactivity feedback
• March 01 - Government of Canada commits to long-term low-level radioactive waste containment facility in Port Hope (source: Public Works and Government Services Canada Web site)

February

• February 26 - Presentation by President Binder to the Canadian Nuclear Association's Annual Conference
• February 25 - CNSC monitoring recent events at Chalk River Laboratories
• February 25 - Presentation by Ramzi Jammal to the National Research Council Institute for National Measurement Standards
• February 24 - AECL provides update on NRU activities - Update #44
• February 22 - Update: Bruce A Unit 1 Alpha Contamination
• February 15 - Order to Nomad Inspection Services Ltd.
• February 15 - Commission Tribunal approves CNSC’s new definition of Licensing Basis
• February 10 - CNSC releases Investigation of the Environmental Fate of Tritium in the Atmosphere report
• February 08 - Order issued to Acuren Group Inc.
• February 05 - Executive Summary: Phase 1 Pre-Project Design Review of Westinghouse AP1000
• February 03 - Joint Review Panel for the Darlington project requests additional information from Ontario Power Generation (source: CEAA web site)

January

• January 27 - AECL NRU Status Update #40 (source: AECL Web site)
• January 25 - Canadian Nuclear Society (CNS) presentation – January 29, 2010: Tooling Development at the Chalk River R&D Laboratories in Support of the NRU Vessel Leak Repair Project
• January 21 - Revised Protocol for National Research Universal Licensing Activities (January 2010, Revision 1)
• January 21 - Bruce A Unit 1 Alpha Contamination
• January 19 - Revised Protocol for the Restart of the NRU Reactor (January 2010, Revision 1)
• January 13 - AECL NRU Status Update #38: Overall repair process effective but progressing at a slower pace than originally anticipated (source: AECL Web site)
• January 11 - Presentation by Terry Jamieson to the 2010 ISOE North American ALARA Symposium/EPRI Radiation Protection Conference, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
• January 04 - CNSC Signs Contribution Agreement with the ICRP