Nuclear Awareness

Watch our public health inspectors discuss who is eligible to receive KI tablets.

If you live or work within 10 kilometres of a station, you need to have a supply of KI tablets. Anyone living within 50 kilometres of a nuclear generating station is eligible to receive KI tablets if they want to keep a supply on hand.

Visit preparetobesafe.ca and enter your postal code to find out if you are located within the eligible zone to receive KI tablets.

This Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care fact sheet answers these questions and many more.

The best way for most residents and businesses to order potassium iodide (KI) tablets is directly from the preparetobesafe.ca website.

If you need assistance in ordering your tablets, call the Durham Region Health Department Environmental Help Line at 905-723-3818 or 1-888-777-9613 to speak with a public health inspector.

Getting KI tablets from a pharmacy

Five local pharmacies have partnered with the Health Department and have a limited supply of KI tablets for residents located within 10 kilometres of either the Pickering or Darlington nuclear generating station. Residents can pick up their supply of KI tablets from one of the pharmacies below.

Limited quantities of KI tablets are available at the following pharmacies:

Bay Ridges Pharmacy
1794 Liverpool Rd, unit 7
Pickering, ON L1V 4G1
905-839-1123

Pickering Medical Pharmacy
1885 Glenanna Rd.
Pickering, ON L1V 6R6
905-831-8181

Liverpool Pharmacy
725 Krosno Blvd.
Pickering, ON L1W 1G4
905-839-4300

Global Drug Mart Remedy's Rx
130 Waverley Rd.
Bowmanville, ON L1C 3W9
905-623-2333

Courtice Pharmasave
2727 Courtice Rd.
Courtice, ON L1E 3A2
905-432-8888

• KI news release
• Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care fact sheet
• Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care website
• Office of the Fire Marshal and Emergency Management

Call the Environmental Help Line at 905-723-3818 or 1-888-777-9613 to speak to a public health inspector.

Under authority of the Health Department, the Regional Municipality of Durham is seeking one voluntary public member for the Durham Nuclear Health Committee (DNHC).

The DNHC has been meeting for approximately 20 years on Friday afternoons, approximately five times per year. The DNHC acts as a scientific and technical oriented committee primarily focused on nuclear emissions, nuclear waste and other related topics by providing a forum for discussing and addressing potential radiation and environmental human health impacts. The committee meets with nuclear industry representatives who connect directly with environmental human health experts and members of the public from the nuclear host communities and elsewhere in Durham Region.

The DNHC will be replacing one voluntary public member to represent the interests and concerns of the community on matters that pertain to the health of the public related to nuclear facilities in Durham Region. The new DNHC public member will reside in Clarington. Preference will be given to applicants with an interest in nuclear energy and human health.

Interested applicants should submit a letter outlining their interest and background to:

Dr. Robert Kyle
Commissioner & Medical Officer of Health
The Regional Municipality of Durham
Health Department
605 Rossland Rd. E., P.O. Box 730
Whitby, ON L1N 0B2
Applications may also be submitted by email to health@durham.ca.

Submissions must be received at the Health Department no later than Friday, July 26, 2019.

For more information about the DNHC please email the Health Department.

Regional and Provincial Government Representatives

Ontario Power Generation

University of Ontario Institute of Technology

Secretary

Terms of Reference

Final revised terms of reference

Reports

• 2014 Radiation Health Response Plan, Emergency Management Branch, MOHLTC
• Estimating cancer risk in relation to tritium exposure from routine operation of a nuclear-generating station in Pickering, Ontario (Chronic Diseases and Injuries in Canada, 2013)

In 1992, Ontario's Environmental Assessment Advisory Committee held public meetings regarding the suggested expansion of the Ajax Water Supply Plant and recommended that the Durham Nuclear Health Committee (DNHC) be established. After a full consultation with key stakeholders, Durham Regional Council created the DNHC in late 1995.