Historic Tailings

The inventory of historic waste to the end of 2003 was 1.7 million m3.

For 2003, the total inventory of historic waste in low-level radioactive waste facilities, for which the Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management Office (LLRWMO) has management responsibility on behalf of the federal government, is 552,900 m3. The waste consists of the following:

Municipality of Port Hope, Ontario 500,000 m3
Other locations:
Toronto (Scarborough), Ontario 9,100 m3
AECL-CRL, Ontario 600 m3
Fort McMurray, Alberta 42,500 m3
Northwest Territories 675  m3
TOTAL 52,875 m3

Cameco Corporation continues to manage its two waste sites at Welcome and Port Granby in the Municipalities of Port Hope and Clarington, Ontario, respectively. The Welcome Waste Management Facility contains about 650,000 m3 of wastes and contaminated soils. The Port Granby Waste Management Facility contains about 500,000 m3 of wastes and contaminated soils.

The total volume of these wastes to the end of 2003 is 1,150,000 m3.