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Nuclear Safety and Security
Ensuring activities, regulations and policies are supported by the necessary expertise and facilities. As the centre of federal expertise on nuclear and radiological issues, AECL maintains the safety and security of several federal nuclear sites, develops technology that is used to assure Canada’s nuclear safety and security, provides nuclear crisis/emergency response operational and advisory capabilities and provides advice to other government departments and international nuclear bodies.Most popular related searches
- Nuclear Non-Proliferation and counter-terrorism supports collaborations with Canadian government agencies, the private sector and international organizations to reduce the threat of nuclear proliferation by providing innovation to prevent and detect illegal transport of nuclear materials. It also ensures that AECL’s nuclear sites present no threat to nuclear safety.
- Nuclear Response ensures that appropriate resources are in place to prepare, respond to and mitigate emergency events (including fire) and provides technical support as required to other nuclear sites and local, regional, provincial and national communities.
- Nuclear Materials Handling ensures that nuclear materials are managed and transported safely, at no risk to nuclear workers or the Canadian public.
- Nuclear Safety Technology develops methods to enable the safe execution of nuclear activities in Canada based on sound scientific knowledge and ensures that the regulator has access to this knowledge. It provides data, tools and measurements to support the safe regulation of nuclear facilities, and to validate and develop codes needed to perform nuclear safety analysis and define safety margins.