Agreement will Drive Economic Opportunities in Canada and Abroad
PICKERING, ON, May 13, 2021 /CNW/ - Ontario Power Generation s (OPG) Centre for Canadian Nuclear Sustainability (CCNS), Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL) and SNC-Lavalin have signed a Collaboration Agreement on nuclear decommissioning.
This collaboration agreement brings together three of the biggest players in the Canadian nuclear industry to:
OPG’s Pickering Nuclear Generating Station - Canadian Nuclear Leaders Collaborate on Nuclear Decommissioning (CNW Group/Ontario Power Generation Inc.)
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SNC-Lavalin Logo (CNW Group/Ontario Power Generation Inc.)
Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNW Group/Ontario Power Generation Inc.)
April 5, 2021 – Small modular reactor developer Moltex Energy has received $50.5 million from Canada’s Strategic Innovation Fund (SIF) and Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (ACOA) to advance its project to design and commercialize a molten salt reactor and spent fuel recycling facility.
Meantime, through its Centre for Canadian Nuclear Sustainability (CCNS), Ontario Power Generation (OPG) has joined forces with Moltex, and is providing $1 million in funding to help the company demonstrate the technical viability of its process for recycling used CANDU fuel.
Moltex plans to build the world’s first 300-MW Stable Salt Reactor-Wasteburner (SSR-W) and WAste-to-Stable-Salt (WATSS) facility at the Point Lepreau Generating Station site in Saint John, N.B., and provide electricity to the grid by the early 2030s.
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As part of the Department of Energy’s Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program (ARDP) funding to X-Energy, the firm announced this week it is evaluating a site in Richland, WA, to build a first of a kind advanced nuclear reactor. The proposed site is not far from other nuclear facilities in Washington including the Columbia Generating Station and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.