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2010

March

• March 11 - Presentation by Vice-President, Technical Support Branch, Terry Jamieson at the 22nd Annual Regulatory Information Conference
• March 09 - Presentation by President Binder at the 22nd Annual Regulatory Information Conference
• March 05 - CNSC response to the opinion article published in Le Nouvelliste on March 1, 2010 entitled "Les Québécois peuvent encore dire non"
• March 05 - CNSC releases Evaluation of Facilities Handling Tritium report
• March 04 - The CNSC responds to an article in Le Devoir on positive coolant void reactivity feedback
• March 01 - Government of Canada commits to long-term low-level radioactive waste containment facility in Port Hope (source: Public Works and Government Services Canada Web site)

February

• February 26 - Presentation by President Binder to the Canadian Nuclear Association's Annual Conference
• February 25 - CNSC monitoring recent events at Chalk River Laboratories
• February 25 - Presentation by Ramzi Jammal to the National Research Council Institute for National Measurement Standards
• February 24 - AECL provides update on NRU activities - Update #44
• February 22 - Update: Bruce A Unit 1 Alpha Contamination
• February 15 - Order to Nomad Inspection Services Ltd.
• February 15 - Commission Tribunal approves CNSC’s new definition of Licensing Basis
• February 10 - CNSC releases Investigation of the Environmental Fate of Tritium in the Atmosphere report
• February 08 - Order issued to Acuren Group Inc.
• February 05 - Executive Summary: Phase 1 Pre-Project Design Review of Westinghouse AP1000
• February 03 - Joint Review Panel for the Darlington project requests additional information from Ontario Power Generation (source: CEAA web site)

January

• January 27 - AECL NRU Status Update #40 (source: AECL Web site)
• January 25 - Canadian Nuclear Society (CNS) presentation – January 29, 2010: Tooling Development at the Chalk River R&D Laboratories in Support of the NRU Vessel Leak Repair Project
• January 21 - Revised Protocol for National Research Universal Licensing Activities (January 2010, Revision 1)
• January 21 - Bruce A Unit 1 Alpha Contamination
• January 19 - Revised Protocol for the Restart of the NRU Reactor (January 2010, Revision 1)
• January 13 - AECL NRU Status Update #38: Overall repair process effective but progressing at a slower pace than originally anticipated (source: AECL Web site)
• January 11 - Presentation by Terry Jamieson to the 2010 ISOE North American ALARA Symposium/EPRI Radiation Protection Conference, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
• January 04 - CNSC Signs Contribution Agreement with the ICRP