Canada's Nuclear Legacy Liabilities Program - Ten Years of Progress and Achievements - 16456

Conference · Fri Jul 01 04:00:00 EDT 2016

OSTI ID:22838252

Metcalfe, D.; Badke, C.; McCauley, D. ^[1]

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1. Natural Resources Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0E4 (Canada)

Nuclear legacy liabilities have resulted from more than 60 years of nuclear research and development carried out on behalf of Canada. The liabilities are located at Atomic Energy of Canada Limited's (AECL) Chalk River Laboratories in Ontario and Whiteshell Laboratories in Manitoba, as well as three shutdown prototype reactors in Ontario and Quebec that are being maintained in a safe storage state. Estimated at about $10.6 billion (B) (current day Canadian dollars), these liabilities consist of disused nuclear facilities and associated infrastructure, a wide variety of buried and stored waste, and contaminated lands. The Government of Canada established the Nuclear Legacy Liabilities Program (NLLP) in 2006 to implement a long-term strategy to safely and cost-effectively reduce risks and liabilities, and invested approximately $1.4 B over the 10-year duration of the Program to implement the strategy. Risks and liabilities were reduced through projects and activities that decommissioned and removed out-dated facilities, remediated lands affected by past practices, and improved the management of legacy radioactive waste. The NLLP formally ended in September 2015 when the restructuring of AECL's Nuclear Laboratories was completed, and a Government-owned Contractor-operated (GoCo) management model came into effect. The nuclear decommissioning and waste management work that was previously carried out under the NLLP was transitioned into the new GoCo contract. Over the 10-year duration of the NLLP, the Program achieved good progress in addressing health, safety and environmental priorities, reducing liabilities, and providing the studies, plans and facilities that will be needed to enable subsequent phases of the strategy. The NLLP provided a strong basis for the GoCo contractor to accelerate risk and liability reduction at AECL sites. (authors)

• Research Organization: WM Symposia, Inc., PO Box 27646, 85285-7646 Tempe, AZ (United States)
• OSTI ID: 22838252
• Report Number(s): INIS-US--19-WM-16456
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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NUCLEAR FACILITIES
RADIOACTIVE WASTE MANAGEMENT
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