Canada And The United States CrissCross Support For Nuclear Energy’s Bright Future

Canada And The United States CrissCross Support For Nuclear Energy’s Bright Future

Share to Linkedin The United States and Canada have a lot to collaborate on in the nuclear energy field, and they seem to be doing a good job of it. Each country is considering each other's reactor designs and each has funded or chosen to review some of those from both countries. Ontario Power Generation (OPG) recently selected U. S.-based GE Hitachi's BWRX-300 small modular reactor (SMR) as Canada's first commercial, grid-scale, SMR for their Darlington nuclear site. Illustration of the IMSR®400 power plant in the configuration proposed for Canada's Darlington site. ... [+] The IMSR®400 has the capacity to generate 390 MW (net) of clean, reliable and carbon-free electric power on a 7 hectare site (17. 3 acres). And recently, the U. S. Department of Energy gave a $3 million grant to Canada-based Terrestrial Energy to support licensing and commercialization of its Integral Molten Salt Reactor (IMSR), a Generation IV nuclear power plant. The largest of the DOE awards announced last fall, the award supports modeling and simulation for the off-gas systems of the IMSR power plant, supporting the company's regulatory program for U. S. NRC licensing. In 2020, the Canadian government also invested $15 million of federal funds