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The Project
 
The Cleanup of Abandoned Northern Sites (CLEANS) project—a multi-year, multimillion-dollar project—will assess and reclaim Gunnar, Lorado and 36 satellite mine sites. The Saskatchewan Research Council (SRC) is managing the project and will communicate regularly with local northern and Aboriginal communities. Funding is being provided by the governments of Canada and Saskatchewan.
 

Abandoned uranium mine and mill sites slated for
reclamation are located in the far northwest corner
of Saskatchewan—indicated by the highlighted area.
The Goal
 
The goal is to conduct remediation activities in a manner that meets or exceeds the regulatory requirements.
 
 
Once the sites are cleaned up and made safe, various types of environmental monitoring will be done in the remaining years of the project.
 
Locations
 
 
Most of the abandoned sites are located near Uranium City.
Sites include:
  • Gunnar
  • Lorado
  • 34 abandoned satellite sites in the Uranium City area
  • 2 abandoned satellite sites east of La Ronge
 How
 
Project CLEANS is managed by SRC with significant input from northern and First Nations community stakeholders. Most of the project will be completed in an eight-year span, beginning in 2007, with many years of environmental monitoring to follow. Cleanup activities will be subcontracted.
 


SRC’s Expertise

SRC has scientific, technical, and management expertise, as well as experience working with project stakeholders—communities, Aboriginal groups, industry and government.
 
SRC’s expertise includes:
  • Working with industry, including mining and mineral, and environment and forestry companies,
  • Environmental site assessment and remediation,
  • Ground and surface water quality assessment and treatment, and
  • Organic, inorganic and radiochemical analysis, and toxicity testing.
SRC is qualified to hold licenses from the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC). SRC's experience with CNSC includes having a licence for a SLOWPOKE reactor, which it has operated safely in Saskatoon for almost three decades.

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