Radiological Surveys of Lands and River Sediments to Support Defining the Scope of the Whiteshell Laboratories Decommissioning Project

Abstract

In 1998, Atomic Energy of Canada Limited began planning the closure of the Whiteshell Laboratories in Pinawa, Manitoba. As part of the decommissioning licensing process, an environmental assessment of the decommissioning project was undertaken at the comprehensive level. Two radiological studies were conducted to finalize the scope of the decommissioning project and the environmental assessment. These were a radiological survey of approximately 3000 hectares of AECL property not impacted by nuclear operations and an assessment of the river sediments near the process water outfall.