by 2034. Additionally, Ontario Power Generation intends to evaluate the potential for the deployment of additional SMRs at the Darlington site. This “fleet” approach would identify a common SMR technology that could be more efficiently deployed in multiple jurisdictions. Site preparation is now underway for a BWRX-300 at OPG’s Darlington New Nuclear Project site in Clarington, Ontario, with construction expected to be complete by the end of 2028. This will be the first grid-scale SMR in North America. “A 1MW power source could power approximately 1,200 average Canadian homes over a year, so even a ‘small’ 300 MW reactor can still provide a lot of electricity,” says Fehrenbach. “As more computer intensive high-tech companies move to Canada and its industrial base of steel and resource heavy industries look to modernize, these facilities may draw as much as 100 MW for themselves. This brings us to a second category of SMRs which includes those defined as Stream 2 in Canada’s SMR Action Plan. Stream 2 is focused on the use of nuclear technology to help decarbonize industry by creating both energy and steam through the use of 4th generation advanced SMR designs. Two of these designs will be developed in New Brunswick through the construction of a project at the Point Lepreau nuclear generating station. The ARC Clean Energy technology is anticipated to be commissioned in 2029 and generating power by 2030, to be followed by Moltex Canada’s SSR-W, according to the SMR Action Plan. Stream Two and other ‘Generation IV’ technologies are very advanced reactors of different designs that BWRX-300 Rendering 5
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