It also charged that international transports of nuclear waste to the on-site waste treatment plant created a risk of a terrorist attack.

Waste from these facilities shall be discharged directly to a sanitary sewer system, when available and feasible, or to an adequate on-site waste treatment facility approved by the appropriate reviewing authority.

At the notifier's cleaning facility, without on-site waste treatment procedures, a maximum of 0.5 kilogram/day of the notified substance shall be released via effluent to the regional wastewater treatment system.

This water has been systematically collected, purified in an on-site Waste Treatment Centre, and eventually released to the Ottawa River in accordance with CNSC, Health Canada, and Ministry of the Environment regulations.

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