SaskPower, Cameco and Westinghouse sign MOU on future nuclear development
With Westinghouse now 49% owned by Saskatoon-based Cameco, the prospect of “buying Saskatchewan” becomes significant.
As a side note, I’ve been expecting this sort of development ever since Cameco announced it was buying nearly half of Westinghouse. While SaskPower is currently committed to building GE-Hitachi reactors at Estevan, at least two of them, it’s quite possible subsequent reactors will be Westinghouse models. And Moe has told me several times the government is considering big, 1000 megawatt reactors.
As for the fancy curved architecture, I expect the final product will be much more utilitarian.
Welcome to Nuclear. Keep OPG away from your Province…
They are Sociopathic Scumbags disguised as Nuclear Management. Pt LePreau just had some “help” from OPG and OPG screwed up the last outage for them. Offline for months.
It’s a planned outage to last 100 days undertaken only by NB Power staff and contractors. Because of the Saint John River runoff, Lepreau always takes its maintenance outages in spring. Try doing some actual research before spewing nonsense.
Bite me CGH I worked there. I ran the largest Project there. I was there for 70 days. We were put on standby for 3 weeks which NEVER happens. It was because someone in another work group didn’t measure the Airlock and a Motor wouldn’t fit.
OPG was managing the outage. I mean MISmanaging.
Luckily LePreau soured on OPG’s useless DEI Managers.
What a WASTE:
“A Saskatchewan Government agency will spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to investigate high-altitude aerosols as part of a NASA-initiated project to address climate change.
Innovation Saskatchewan is investing $600,000 over three years through the Innovation and Science Fund (ISF) for a project supporting the HAWC (High-altitude Aerosol, Water vapor, and Cloud) satellite mission. HAWC is the Canadian Space Agency’s contribution to the Atmosphere Observing System (AOS) mission led by NASA slated to launch in 2031. ISF matches federal innovation funding dollars for projects from Saskatchewan universities, colleges and research institutes.”
Small modular reactors..So what has the USA Navy been using?
Or those Russian Icebreakers?
Are we reinventing the wheel?
Or are there some insurmountable safety rationals against civilian use?
Might be cheaper to buy a well used nuclear Aircraft carrier and park it on a lake?
Such thoughts come to me,due to the utter insanity shown toward every proposal to build a nuclear power station.
Much better to park a mobile plant,use the power as needed until the idiot courts and Gang Green rule against it.
Then move it a few meters and mock them some more..
At least the sane will have usable power,instead of endless public monies tied up in never to produce sites.
Such has been the history of Nuclear Power in North America.
Or we could banish Gang Green from all technological society..
In 2019, over 50% of Ontario’s electricity came from nuclear generators, now it seems to be around 35%, still the biggest contributor.
No. In terms of actual electricity, not capacity, Ontario gets about 65% of its electricity from nuclear. Depending on time of day, this rises to about 90% at night.
We should at least let Rosatom bid on this:
https://www.rosatom.ru/en/rosatom-group/small-nuclear-power-plants/
“Are there some insurmountable saftey rationales against civilians use?”
Proliferation. Small naval reactors tend to use more highly enriched fuel.
Maybe not insurmountable.
Thanks ,that had occurred to me..But I now consider that a positive factor.
Buffalo,the new western nation,will require nuclear weapons to stand off the Free Stuff Armies from the East.
And such will be required to convince our American Cousins to trade honestly.
Weapons grade and reactor grade enrichment are two very different things. Besides, most nuclear weapons use plutonium not uranium.
This is another scam. Billions for this “new” technology…Another home, made for useless Engineers and Middle Managers. You will regret this decision.
BURN COAL and OIL!!!!
Their heart is in the right place. It’s doubtful they can execute. MOU is great until the execution contractors get hired or basic feasibility and engineering…then the project team realizes that there was very little understanding at all. Then the cost estimate goes through the roof, anti-nuke activists and advocates get their dirty trick budgets, etc. Building codes and spec change, different levels of government and their rent-seeking agencies muscle in…I need to stop here, its too depressing. Sign a contract, get shovels in the ground, build the grid, sign fuel contracts, then there is a glimmer of hope, for 2035. If a changed government doesn’t pull the plug meanwhile.
In BC we can’t properly execute ANY large capital projects without muli-year delays, and cost estimates tripling at least. Site C, Trans-Mountain, N. Vancouver treatment plant, Broadway subway…
Also known as “Can’tada.” We seem to have forgotten how to get big things done. If the CPR were built today, they would get 5 km complete in about 8 years.
Not so. The reconstruction projects of Darlington and Bruce have all gone ahead of schedule and under budget. The early reconstruction projects of Pickering 4 and Point Lepreau were indeed poorly executed.
People and industries learn from mistakes. In general, much of the western world has lost the skills of how to do large project management after the 1980s.
I see your Bruce and raise you one Trans Mountain Expansion – years overdue, 6x the original budget.
So what you are saying is the nuclear industry now gets it right while the oil and gas industry does not? If you are concerned about project management expertise, have the South Koreans build or consult on it. They get all their nuclear projects on or ahead of schedule and budget for the last three decades. Their latest project, Barakkah in UAE, was ready months ahead of schedule for all four units.
FILTHY OPG Ran up $36 Billion in debt. We are still paying for that debt from the early 80’s. Nobody buys Canadian Nukes.
The problem in Canada isn’t building, running or managing.
It’s you can’t get the permitting to build the thing in the first place.
How much of this is legitimate and how much of it is different parties with their hand out?
All of it is legitimate. Saskatchewan has about five billion tonnes of coal reserves. All of it is lignite with low heating value and low sulfur content. So Saskatchewan needs to build something as both population and electrical load grow.
They have a million people. They don’t need Nuclear. BURN oil. Don’t compare Nukes built in UAE by Philipino Slaves, to a real western Nuclear Project. You must work for OPG.