Ensuring Public Health and Safety
Is Port Hope a safe place to live?
Yes.
In June, 2009, The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission published a report that inegrates the results and conclusions of 40 Port Hope health studies that have been conducted over the years.
This report, called the CANADIAN NUCLEAR SAFETY COMMISSION (CNSC) SYNTHESIS REPORT: Understanding Health Studies and Risk Assessments Conducted in the Port Hope Community from the 1950s to the Present, drew some very comforting and definitive conclusions. Here are some excerpts:
"Residents of Port Hope are just as likely to live safe and healthy lives as people in any other communities in Ontario or Canada. No adverse health effects have occured or are likely to occur as a result of the operations of the nuclear industry in the town.
The estimated intakes of uranium in Port Hope are from 0.6 to 3.2 ug/day. These values are comparable to the Ontario average and are only about 1/10 of the tolerable daily intake value recommended by the World Health Organization, whose established limits are considerably more restrictive than those of other organizations.
Risk assessments conducted in Port Hope indicate that elevated uranium concentrations in some of the region's soils pose no risk to Port Hope residents' health."
Click on the link below to read the full report.
Click here for questions and answers about the report.