On Feb. 25, the Chartered Financial Analysts (CFA) Society Saskatchewan held a “dinnerless dinner” online, with its focus on the development of small modular reactors in this province. Among the three speakers was Howard Shearer, who spoke about “The Promise – Small Modular Nuclear Reactors Offer Saskatchewan. Shearer is chief executive with Hitachi Canada. He pointed out he was speaking on his behalf, not his company’s. He has been with the company 36 years. Shearer gave an example of a small Hitachi reactor, capable of up to 300 megawatts, which is “very small, very compact.” “There are approximately 150 SMR designs in development worldwide,” he said, added there were over 100 responses to the Canadian Nuclear Laboratories roadmap of expression of interest.