CBC is reporting that more than $1-billion will be allocated to clean up radioactive waste in Port Hope, Ontario:

Ottawa says it will spend $1.28 billion over 10 years to clean up low-level radioactive waste in the Port Hope area east of Toronto.

The waste came from radium and uranium refining operations of the former Crown corporation Eldorado Nuclear and its private sector predecessors from 1933 to 1988.

The federal government says about 1.7 million cubic metres of the waste is located at sites in Port Hope and Clarington, about 100 kilometres east of Toronto.

Read the full story from January 14, 2012 via $1.28B for Port Hope radioactive cleanup – Toronto – CBC News.