As a global leader in consulting, design, and construction, WSP boasts top uranium experts and offers a full suite of integrated engineering and environmental services for the entire project lifecycle, including exploration, permitting, design, environmental impact assessment, and closure. With Canada being a key uranium producer, primarily from Saskatchewan, WSP has over three decades of experience working with major providers like Cameco and Orano, as well as delivering uranium mining solutions worldwide in countries such as Australia, the USA, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Germany, Ukraine, Romania, Argentina, and Brazil.

WSP has extensive experience supporting licence holders through each phase of a facility’s life cycle, including end of life planning and decommissioning. We specialize in providing full spectrum decommission solutions including detailed engineering, design, planning, and general contracting. Our services include:

• Prime contractor

• Construction management

• Design-build

• Advisory services and closure planning

• Concept design and constructability review

• Construction engineering

• Demolition plans

• Detailed work plans and project specifications

• Engineer of record

• Waste management including hazardous materials and contaminated materials

With over 40 years of experience, our team supports environmental approvals for the Canadian nuclear sector, handling some of the most complex projects in the country. Our deep understanding of environmental regulatory processes for both existing stations and new builds, including small modular reactors (SMRs), positions us to support the next generation of nuclear projects in Canada and worldwide. We collaborate with key clients like Bruce Power, Ontario Power Generation, and New Brunswick Power, and are actively involved in developing nuclear projects on the international stage, contributing to this exciting new era in nuclear energy.

We conduct radiological surveys and assessments across the nuclear industry, including mining, new builds, existing facilities, and remediation sites, leveraging our proprietary technology like Scan Plot^SM and Scan Sort^SM to monitor and map radiological contamination effectively. Our team, skilled in radiation monitoring and geographical applications, crafts tailored solutions for real-time land contamination mapping and visual trend analysis, ensuring materials and equipment meet safety standards for release. Additionally, our environmental radiation surveys assess radiological impacts on both human and non-human biota, involving thorough data analysis, dynamic modeling of radioactivity transfer, and risk assessments, contributing to environmental impact assessments and compliance reports. 

Nuclear energy offers Canada a route to net zero and a secure energy future, necessitating a safe, long-term solution for radioactive waste management. The favored approach is a deep underground storage facility, constructed in a stable geological environment, typically 500 to 1,000 meters below the surface. Since the early 1970s, we've supported the development of such facilities for safely managing radioactive waste. Our work in deep geological environments and engineered barrier systems spans globally, providing extensive, in-depth expertise to organizations, implementers, regulators, and researchers across countries including Canada, the USA, Sweden, Finland, the UK, Hungary, Switzerland, France, Germany, South Korea, and Japan.

Remediation of radioactive contaminated sites and dealing with radioactive waste are challenges the industry needs to overcome to unlock its future potential. While land around existing nuclear sites is ideal for developing new build and small modular reactors, we help clients to understand the technical challenges including any necessary remedial action. WSP combines world-leading environmental consultancy with long experience in the nuclear sector. We have worked on land quality planning, environmental impact assessments, and the remediation of the land for clients like Canadian Nuclear Laboratories in Port Hope. Our combination of expertise and experience makes us the perfect choice to support the decommissioning that is key to Canada’s nuclear industry.