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Bruce Power is conducting checks on 192 staff that could have been affected by a contamination incident in November last year. Chalk River Laboratory has so far carried out 39 large volume bioassays with the results that ten people have shown less than detectable activity (MDA); 20 have more than MDA...

The world's second biggest uranium-exporting country has overcome a period of low ore grades and operation problems to reach production levels last seen in 2005.

The government of Canada has awarded C$20 million ($19.4 million) for the design and construction oversight for a long-term facility to manage historic low-level radioactive waste at Port Hope in Ontario.

Canada-based Khan Resources has chosen a takeover bid from Chinese company CNNC Overseas Uranium Holding Ltd (CNNC) over a rival offer from Russia's AtomRedMetzoloto (ARMZ). In response, ARMZ is extending its offer.

Welding repairs to the NRU reactor at Chalk River are taking longer than expected and the unit is now slated to return in April.

The Canadian provinces of Quebec and New Brunswick have concluded negotiations on an energy agreement that will see Hydro-Quebec acquire most of NB Power's generation assets including the Point Lepreau nuclear power station.

The government of Saskatchewan has said it will continue to support and enhance uranium mining and nuclear research but will not support plans for a nuclear power plant in the Canadian province for the time being.

Investors have been asked to propose a new future for Canada's state nuclear reactor technology business outside of state hands. Existing project partners are thought the most likely buyers.

Canadian company Khan Resources has urged its shareholders to reject a takeover bid as it strives to find a way forward over disputed mining licences with the Mongolian government.

The first weld build-up repair has taken place at Canada's stricken National Research Unit (NRU) reactor, keeping the vital isotope-producing plant on schedule for restart.

The McClean Lake uranium mill in the province of Saskatchewan, Canada, is to be put on stand-by in mid-2010 until market conditions improve, the partners in the project have announced.

Canada-based Uranium One has completed its purchase of a 50% stake in the Karatau uranium project in Kazakhstan from Russia's Atomredmetzoloto (ARMZ), following receipt of all necessary governmental and regulatory approvals.

Canada's L3-MAPPS is to supply a second simulator for South Africa's Koeberg nuclear power plant. The order follows a contract earlier this year from utility Eskom to refurbish the existing simulator at the plant's operator training centre.

Workers at Canada's Chalk River Laboratories are awaiting a response from the country's natural resources minister on their own proposal for the future of the facility in the restructuring of Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd.

Two weeks after Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper visited India, he and Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh have announced that they have struck a civilian nuclear cooperation agreement.

Russia's AtomRedMetZoloto (ARMZ) has moved to resolve uncertainty over titles to a Mongolian uranium field by buying out the Canadian company with a rival claim.

French and Belgian radioisotope production reactors will step into the breach to mitigate shortages of molybdenum-99 when a Dutch reactor enters a mandatory shutdown in 2010.

Two reactors out of service for over a decade have been given approval for refuelling and restart. At the same time, there have been a five-year operating licence renewals for the Bruce A and B nuclear power stations.

Cameco has resumed pumping out water from its partially-flooded Cigar Lake uranium mine in Saskatchewan, Canada, but says that it may take up to a year to fully dewater and secure the mine.

Ontario Power Generation (OPG) has submitted its environmental impact assessment of new reactors at Darlington, although government plans to build are on hold.

Canada and Kazakhstan have concluded negotiations on the text of a nuclear cooperation agreement, ministers from the two countries have announced.

Canada's Fronteer Development Group has announced a positive preliminary economic assessment for its Michelin uranium project located in the central mineral belt of Labrador.

Scientists and legislators in Saskatchewan have proposed to the Canadian federal government that a new research reactor is built in the province. The submission came with 20 letters of support from industry and academia.

Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd is to cooperate with three Chinese organisations to assess the use of thorium fuel in Candu pressurized heavy water reactors.

The provincial government of Ontario, Canada has stopped work towards building new reactors. Bids from abroad were not up to scratch, it said, and it did not have confidence in the future for AECL.