Drill In Progress at Peterborough Site
Please be advised we have a practice drill in progress at our Peterborough facility. Like many businesses, we regularly hold drills to ensure that our employees and first responders know what to do in the event of an emergency. Update: The practice drill has been completed. Visit Emergency Response – | People Strong. Innovation Driven. […]
Fire Alarm at BWXT Nuclear Energy Canada, 1160 Monaghan Road
Date: September 25, 2025 Subject: Fire Alarm at BWXT Nuclear Energy Canada, 1160 Monaghan Road On Thursday, September 25, 2025, at approximately 4:40 p.m., Peterborough Fire Service responded to a fire alarm at BWXT Nuclear Energy Canada’s Peterborough facility in Building 21. All employees in the affected building were safely evacuated and have been accounted […]
You’re Invited: Nuclear Medicine Power Breakfast with Innovation Cluster
Have you ever wondered how BWXT supports the nuclear medicine industry? Join us at our Power Breakfast with Innovation Cluster on Tuesday, September 23 at the Holiday Inn Peterborough-Waterfront! Registration is required and space is limited. More information can be found at the following link: Brewing Insights: Discover the Local Impact of Nuclear Medicine.
Observe BWXT’s Annual Soil Sampling Campaign on August 6
At BWXT in Peterborough, we assemble fuel bundles for CANDU reactors using natural uranium dioxide pellets from our Toronto facility. These pellets are inserted into zirconium tubes to form the fuel bundle. As part of our environmental monitoring program, a third-party consultant will be conducting routine soil sampling for the presence of beryllium and uranium […]
Parking Lot Updates at Toronto Facility
Date: July 11, 2025 Subject: Parking Lot Updates at Toronto Facility, 1025 Lansdowne Ave. Starting July 11, 2025, a contractor will be removing and placing asphalt in the visitor parking lot at our Toronto facility at 1025 Lansdowne Avenue. Additionally, river rock will be removed from the area and will be replaced with asphalt. We […]
Read Our July Community Update
Each month we send out a community update email to our subscribers. We prepare a Peterborough update and a Toronto update, specific to each community. To view our July Community Updates, click the links below. From there, you can select the button that says, “Join Our Email List” to be added to receive future communications. […]
Indigenous Relations Roadmap June Update
In July 2024, we introduced an Indigenous Relations Roadmap for our operations in Canada. The Roadmap is a leadership guide to advancing Indigenous Truth and Reconciliation across our business efforts in an aligned and meaningful way. In September 2024 we established BWXT’s Indigenous Relations Roadmap Oversight Committee to oversee the implementation of the Indigenous Relations […]
Join Our Facebook Group!
We are thrilled to announce the launch of our BWXT Community Information Group on Facebook – your go-to source for regular updates about BWXT in Peterborough and Toronto. Click here to join our Facebook Group.
Facility Training Visit with Peterborough Police Service
Date: June 3, 2025 Subject: Facility Training and Familiarization Visit with Peterborough Police Service, 1160 Monaghan Road Representatives from Peterborough Police Service will be onsite at our facility at 1160 Monaghan Road in Peterborough, Ontario, for facility training and familiarization visits over the next two weeks. These routine visits are conducted to ensure police are […]
See Inside Our Toronto Site: Virtual Tour Available!
To continue to share what we do at BWXT, we have developed a virtual tour of our Toronto pellet manufacturing facility. We invite you to watch the virtual tour at the following link: Pellet Production. We also have a virtual tour of our fuel bundle manufacturing process in Peterborough: Fuel Bundle Manufacturing. If you have […]