Nuclear Facilities

There are several major nuclear facilities operating across the Canada; these include uranium mines and mines, uranium processing facilities, nuclear power plants and major nuclear substances processing facilities.

There are also several new nuclear projects proposed in some Canadian communities; these projects are at different stages of the environmental assessment or licensing process.

All new nuclear projects must undergo an environmental assessment. Before a project can begin, a license from the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) must be issued.

Uranium

Mines and Mills

• Cigar Lake Mine (Saskatchewan)
• Key Lake Mill (Saskatchewan)
• McArthur River Mine (Saskatchewan)
• McClean Lake Mine and Mill  (Saskatchewan)
• Rabbit Lake Mine and Mill (Saskatchewan)

Processing and Fuel Fabrication Facilities

• Blind River Refinery (Ontario)
• Port hope Uranium Conversion Facility (Ontario)
• Cameco Fuel Manufacturing Inc. (Ontario)
• BWXT Nuclear Energy Canada Inc. - Toronto (Ontario)
• BWXT Nuclear Energy Canada Inc. - Peterborough (Ontario)

Reactors

Nuclear Power Plants

• Bruce A and B Nuclear Generating Stations (Ontario)
• Darlington Nuclear Generating Station (Ontario)
• Pickering Nuclear Generating Station (Ontario)
• Gentilly-2 Nuclear Generating Station ( Québec)
• Point Lepreau Generating Station (New Brunswick)

Research Reactors

• Chalk River Laboratories (Ontario)
• McMaster Nuclear Reactor (Ontario)
• École Polytechnique (SLOWPOKE-2) (Québec)
• Saskatchewan Research Council (SLOWPOKE-2) (Saskatchewan)
• University of Alberta (SLOWPOKE-2)(Alberta)
• Royal Military College of Canada (SLOWPOKE-2) (Ontario) 

Nuclear Substances

• Best Theratronics Ltd. (Ontario)
• Nordion (Ontario)
• SRB Technologies (Ontario)
• Shield Source Incorporated (Ontario)

Waste

• Pinawa-Whiteshell (Manitoba)
• Port Hope (Ontario)
• Toronto (Ontario)