Draft of REGDOC-1.3.1 for consultation period February 19, 2024 to April 4, 2024. The document provides clarity on the requirements and guidance for preparing an application to obtain a licence to prepare a site and construct, operate and/or decommission a uranium mine or mill in Canada.

Canada’s Eighth National Report demonstrates how Canada continued to meet its obligations under the articles of the Joint Convention on the Safety of Spent Fuel Management and on the Safety of Radioactive Waste Management during the reporting period, from April 1, 2020, to March 31, 2024. This report is a collaboration between the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC), other federal government departments, and industry. It focuses specifically on the progress of long-term management initiatives for spent fuel and radioactive wastes in Canada, revisions and updates to Canada’s Seventh National Report, as well as comments and issues outstanding from the Sixth Review Meeting and those raised at the Seventh Review Meeting, which took place in July 2022.