Canadian Nuclear Laboratories in Chalk River, Ont., opened its doors on Saturday to allow the public to take a rare look inside their facilities.
Over 3,000 people attended CNL's first open house in five years. Normally the public is not permitted to visit due to the sensitive materials on site.
"It is a nuclear site and it is not easy to get into any nuclear site across this country or anywhere around the world," said Fred Dermarkar, president of Atomic Energy of Canada Limited, the federal entity that owns the site. CNL is also working with companies like Global First power to develop small nuclear reactors that can connect off grid communities.
The site is over 70 years old now and has been home to decades of nuclear research. A sixth of the 2,800 large workforce is dedicated to safely demolishing old contaminated buildings.
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