Port Hope

Port Hope, ON

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Facility Data

Fuel Cycle Facilities

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Fuel cycle plants at this site, as listed in the IAEA Nuclear Fuel Cycle Facilities Database: what each plant does, its scale and design capacity, the years it operated, its current status and who operates it.
5 facilities: 3 in operation, 1 decommissioned, 1 shutdown.
Facility Type Scale Design Capacity Operated Status Operator
Cameco Fuel Manufacturing Inc. - Port Hope Fuel Fabrication (U Pellet, Pin, FA) Commercial 1650 t U/year 1957– In Operation Cameco Fuel Manufacturing Inc
Cameco - Port Hope (UO2) Conversion to UO2 Commercial 2800 t U/year 1980– In Operation Cameco Corporation
Cameco - Port Hope (UF6) Conversion to UF6 Commercial 12500 t U/year 1984– In Operation Cameco Corporation
Port Hope Eldorado Zirconium Alloy Production Commercial 300 t/year 1968–1970 Decommissioned Cameco Corporation
Cameco - Port Hope (U) Conversion to U Metal Commercial 1985–2001 Shutdown Cameco Corporation
Source: IAEA Nuclear Fuel Cycle Facilities Database (NFCFDB), as of 2026-10-13.

Working Here

Per Diem Rates FY 2026

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Per diem covers lodging and meals & incidental expenses (M&IE) for government and contractor travel near this facility. Rates are from the U.S. State Department foreign per diem tables for FY 2026.
$167
Lodging/Night
$120
M&IE/Day
$287
Total/Day
Canada: rate for locations the State Department does not list separately
U.S. Department of State foreign per diem, for U.S. government and contractor travel.

Facility Map

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Interactive satellite map showing the facility's geographic location. Marker color indicates current status: green for online, red for offline, orange for reduced power. Click the header to open in Google Maps satellite view.

43.9438, -78.2955

Location & Contact

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Physical address, phone number, and website for this facility. Use the directions link to get driving directions via Google Maps.
Address:
Port Hope, ON L1A 3A1, Canada
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Plant Facts

About This Site

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Written by NukeWorker from public records: facts that do not change. Operator, status and capacity come from the live data elsewhere on this page. Sources: Wikipedia: Port Hope, Ontario; CCPA: A short history of radiation in Ontario; Cameco: Port Hope Conversion Facility.

Port Hope is a municipality on the north shore of Lake Ontario, at the mouth of the Ganaraska River in Northumberland County, Ontario. A uranium refining and conversion site there began as a radium refinery run by Eldorado and later converted uranium for reactor fuel.

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Eldorado built the radium refinery in the early 1930s, and the first radium salts were produced by 1936. In the Second World War it produced large quantities of uranium oxide for the United States and the Manhattan Project. Enriched uranium was processed from 1966 to 1987, and depleted uranium metal was produced until 1992. Refining moved to Blind River in the early 1980s, and Cameco was formed in 1988 from the privatization of Eldorado Nuclear and another Crown corporation.