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Whiteshell Laboratories is currently operated under a decommissioning license issued by the Canadian Nuclear Safety Committee (CNSC) on January 1, 2020. This license expires December 31, 2024. The reactor site is in a “storage-with-surveillance” phase during its ongoing decommissioning process. [ 7 ]
The Underground Research Laboratory was a test site for deep geological repository of nuclear waste operated by Atomic Energy of Canada Limited's (AECL's) Whiteshell Laboratories near Lac du Bonnet in Manitoba, Canada. The site was built inside a large granite batholith, typical of the Canadian Shield. The site was selected in 1980 ...
The Whiteshell Reactor No. 1, or WR-1, was a Canadian research reactor located at AECL's Whiteshell Laboratories (WNRL) in Manitoba. Originally known as Organic-Cooled Deuterium-Reactor Experiment ( OCDRE ), [ 1 ] it was built to test the concept of a CANDU-type reactor that replaced the heavy water coolant with an oil substance.
But to clean up the nation’s nuclear waste, a 2022 Government Accountability Office report argued WIPP would need to add of nine more panels after the eight are filled by an estimated date in 2025.
More: Final testing underway at $486M air system for nuclear waste site near Carlsbad She said closure date should be set in WIPP’s permit, to limit the risk the site poses to New Mexico.
The SLOWPOKE research reactor was conceived in 1967 at the Whiteshell Laboratories of AECL. In 1970 a prototype unit called SLOWPOKE (both the name of the reactor and of the prototype reactor class of 2 reactors it was a member of; especially later when further generations of SLOWPOKE reactors had appeared, these type of reactors were named SLOWPOKE-1), was designed and built at Chalk River ...
Since WIPP opened in 1999, the repository received 572 shipments from Hanford, the fifth-most after 1,646 shipments from Los Alamos National Laboratory, 1,747 from Savannah River Site, 2,045 ...
In 1963, AECL established the Whiteshell Nuclear Research Establishment (now Whiteshell Laboratories) in Pinawa, Manitoba, where an organically moderated and cooled reactor was built. Later work on developing a SLOWPOKE reactor, thorium fuel cycle, and a proposal for safe storage of radioactive waste were carried out at this site.