Ontario Energy Minister Todd Smith announced Friday that the province is formally seeking approvals for three more small modular nuclear reactors at its Darlington power plant, where it had already put plans in place for one unit of the novel technology.
Provincially-owned Ontario Power Generation had always contemplated building a total of four of the new units, and had begun clearing enough land for the enlarged project east of the existing Darlington nuclear plant, in Clarington, Ont., east of Toronto. But until Friday, it had been formally proceeding with just one of the new units, the country’s first.
I think SMNR’s are a great idea, better than Wind and Solar by far.
But will the regulatory burden of environmental assessments & endless consultations take a decade to complete before a shovel is even picked up as with the earlier full sized reactor announced this week?
