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Ongoing Waste
Ongoing waste is low-level radioactive waste that is produced from operational activities of generators who are currently in business. These generators, which include nuclear utilities, nuclear research facilities, and the producers and users of medical radioisotopes, are responsible for the management and disposal of their waste. Currently there is about 600 000 cubic metres of this waste in Canada.
Ongoing Waste
The LLRWMO contributes to developments toward the long-term management of ongoing waste in the following ways:
- preparation of documents and reports on specific aspects of managing radioactive waste;
- assessing the need and feasibility of low-level radioactive waste management as a user-pay service in Canada;
- preparing technical, economic and environmental reports on low-level radioactive waste management to assist NRCan in meeting its national and international commitments; and
- representing NRCan at scientific and technical meetings of the International Atomic Energy Agency and the Nuclear Energy Agency of the OECD.
Long-Term Management of Radioactive Low-Level Waste
NRCan establishes national policy for radioactive waste management in Canada. In 1996, the federal government announced a comprehensive Radioactive Waste Policy Framework, which lays out the ground rules for radioactive waste disposal in Canada. It states that the producers and owners of radioactive waste are responsible for the funding, organization, management and operation of disposal and other facilities required for their wastes.
Over the 1991 to 1995 period, the LLRWMO published a series entitled Management of Low-Level Radioactive Waste Produced on an Ongoing Basis, which included six topical reports:
- mixed waste;
- long-lived waste;
- decommissioning waste from power reactors and the fuel cycle;
- waste from decommissioning of nuclear research facilities;
- waste generated from non-nuclear industry activities; and
- characterization of radioactive waste for disposal.
Inventory of Radioactive Waste
 The LLRWMO prepares reports on the inventory of radioactive waste in Canada, and assesses the requirements for services and facilities for the disposal of low-level radioactive waste. In
2004, a report was issued on the inventory of all types of radioactive waste in Canada (i.e., nuclear fuel waste, low-level radioactive waste, and uranium mining and milling waste). This report supersedes earlier reports in 1991, 1992 and 1993, which dealt only with inventories of low-level radioactive
waste, and the 1999 "Inventory of Radioactive Waste in Canada" report.
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