Name and Location
Port Hope Area Initiative (PHAI), Ontario, Canada.

Client
The PHAI Management Office (PHAI MO), which includes Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (lead agency/licence holder), Public Works and Government Services Canada (major contracts) and Natural Resources Canada (sponsor/founder), is undertaking the Port Hope Project.

Project Description
The PHAI is being implemented as the Port Hope and the Port Granby projects.

The Port Hope project involves the clean-up of an estimated 1.2-million cubic metres of historic low-level radioactive waste from various sites in Port Hope; the construction of an engineered above-ground mound where the waste will be safely contained; and the long-term monitoring and maintenance of the new waste-management facility.

The site of the new facility is an existing, closed low-level radioactive waste management facility located south of Highway 401 and west of Baulch road, in the municipality of Port Hope.

Waste at the existing site will be excavated and placed in the new mound.

Other historic low-level radioactive waste – primarily soil contaminated with residue ore from the former radium and uranium refining activities of Eldorado Nuclear — and specified industrial waste from various sites in urban Port Hope will be removed and safely transported to the new facility.

The Port Granby project involves the relocation of about 450 000 m³ of historic low-level radioactive waste and marginally contaminated soils located at an existing waste management facility on the shoreline of Lake Ontario to a new, engineered above-ground mound to be built about 1 km north of the current site.

The waste comes from the former radium- and uranium-refining operations of Eldorado Nuclear in Port Hope and was deposited at the Port Granby site from 1955 to 1988, when the facility was closed.

The project includes construction of an engineered above-ground mound to isolate the waste from the environment and a state-of-the art wastewater treatment plant.

Only historic waste currently located in Clarington will be managed at the Port Granby long-term waste-management facility.

Value
Not stated.

Duration
Construction of the Port Granby project is expected to start in 2015 and will take about five years to complete.

Latest Developments
Amec Foster Wheeler, in joint venture with CB&I, has been awarded a C$86.8-million construction remediation contract by Canadian Nuclear Laboratories to build the Port Granby long-term waste-management facility in the Carlinton municipality, in Canada.

The contract scope includes the construction of the facility and a roadway to permit transportation of the excavated material without using municipal roads and restoring existing and new facilities.

Key Contracts and Suppliers
Amec Foster Wheeler (construction remediation contract).

On Budget and on Time?
Not stated.

Contact Details for Project Information
PHAI MO, tel +1 905 885 0291, fax +905 885 9344 or email info@phai.ca.
Amec Foster Wheeler, Lauren Gallagher, tel +1 602 757 3211 or email lauren.gallagher@amecfw.com.