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High-Level Radioactive Waste Act (C.C.S.M. c. R10).

Country/Territory
Canada
Territorial subdivision
Manitoba
Document type
Legislation
Date
1987
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Subject
Waste & hazardous substances
Keyword
Waste disposal Hazardous waste Research Waste management
Geographical area
Americas, Arctic, Asia and the Pacific, East Pacific, North America, North Atlantic
Abstract

Section 2 of the above-mentioned Act establishes that no person shall: a) provide facilities for the storage of high-level radioactive wastes that were not produced on-site as the result of research in Manitoba, transported to the site for use in on-site research in Manitoba, produced by medical research or treatment centres in Manitoba, or produced as a result of educational research in Manitoba; or b) provide facilities for the storage of spent nuclear fuel, not intended for research purposes, that was produced at a nuclear facility or in a nuclear reactor outside Manitoba; or c) provide interim storage, for more than seven days, for spent nuclear fuel that was produced at a nuclear facility or in a nuclear reactor outside Manitoba; or d) provide storage for high-level radioactive waste or spent nuclear fuel underground or in an above-surface environment that is not subject to continuous monitoring, as agreed between the government and the research facility, and that does not provide reasonable human access to the containers in which the waste or nuclear fuel is contained; or e) provide facilities for the disposal of high-level radioactive wastes in Manitoba. The text consists of 6 sections.

Full text
English
Website
www.gov.mb.ca