Answer #7

How will you know that you’ve cleaned up all of the waste?

The LLRWMO has extensive knowledge of waste volumes and locations from more than 25 years of managing and monitoring historic low-level radioactive waste in Port Hope. Over the pastfive years, extensive radiological surveying – an aerial gamma radiation survey and a roadway survey – has added to this knowledge. The radiological resurvey planned for the start of the clean-up phase will confirm and provide even more information. On each property that is cleaned up, surveys will be conducted to ensure that the contaminated soil has been removed and that all Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission standards have been met.