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Canada
Operating
17
Long-Term Outage
2
Closed
6
Number of Reactors
(as of April 2023)
39.8
Mean Age of Reactor Fleet
(as of April 2023)
14.3%
Stable
Nuclear Share in Electricity Production
(2021)
WNISR
in the Media –
18 May 2023
Toronto Star (Canada)
“Canada and Ontario are turning to nuclear energy as a green solution. Here’s the problem with that”
“As more than $1 billion in public money is being committed to a new generation of reactors, critics are calling for a pause and a rethink, saying nuclear power’s cost overruns, construction delays and safety concerns outweigh its benefits as a provider of clean electricity.” by Marco Chown Oved • published 4 May 2023 After a pause of more than 30 years, Ontario is poised to start building nuclear reactors again in an effort to provide the carbon-free electricity needed to avoid the worst (...)
WNISR
in the Media –
27 March 2023
The Globe and Mail (Canada)
“
OPG
formalizes new agreement with two companies to standardize nuclear reactor design”
“Ontario Power Generation’s efforts to build a small modular reactor at its Darlington station got a boost Thursday [23 March 2023] as it joined two other companies in sharing development costs and technical expertise.” by Matthew McClearn • published 24 March 2023
OPG
plans to build the first
BWRX
-300 reactor by 2028 at its existing Darlington Nuclear Generating Station, placing Ontario’s largest utility in a race against time. Under a new agreement announced in Washington, reactor vendor
GE
(...)
The Annual Reports –
4 September 2018
Nuclear Power: Strategic Asset, Liability or Increasingly Irrelevant?
The World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2018 Released
Paris, London, 4 September 2018. Nuclear power plants added a total of 7-gigawatt (
GW
) capacity to the world’s electricity grids in 2017 and the first half of 2018, a tiny fraction of the total from all sources, which is estimated at some 257
GW
(net) in 2017, including 157
GW
of renewable capacity (the largest increase ever). Over that 18-month period, six reactors started up in China, two in Russia and one in Pakistan. For the third year in a row, excluding China, global nuclear power generation has declined, finds the World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2018 (
WNISR2018
).