Canadian highway closed due to radioactive uranium spill
Uranium concentrate spill closes Saskatchewan highway, The Star.com 12 
Jan 16 RCMP have notified Swift Current residents within a 1.6-kilometre radius of the accident, but say an evacuation is unnecessary because there were no homes downwind from the scene. By: The Canadian Press, Published on Mon Jan 11 2016
SWIFT CURRENT—A stretch of highway in southwest Saskatchewan has been cordoned off until morning after a tractor-trailer carrying 63 drums of uranium concentrate bound for a refinery rolled, spilling a small part of its load.
RCMP have notified residents within a 1.6-kilometre radius of what happened, but say an evacuation was deemed unnecessary because there were no homes downwind from the scene.
The rollover happened around noon on Monday on Highway 4, about 10 kilometres north of Swift Current, Sask. Capt. Greg Campbell of the Swift Current fire department says there was a minor crack in the container carrying the yellowcake, which has a low level of radioactivity, but the spill is mostly contained.
The uranium was produced by a company in Australia and was being shipped through the United States en route to Cameco’s refinery in Blind River, Sask.
Campbell says Cameco officials and their contractors are headed to the site and will undertake the cleanup, with oversight by Canutec, the Transport Canada agency that is responsible for public safety in the transportation of dangerous goods.
“Basically what we’ve done is we’ve just created a safe area around it, not allowing anybody close to it,” says Campbell…….http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2016/01/11/uranium-concentrate-spill-closes-saskatchewan-highway.html
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