AtkinsRéalis firm Candu Power has received a C$450m execution contract from Ontario Energy Technology (OPG) to construct the primary of 4 deliberate small modular reactors (SMRs) on the Darlington Nuclear Producing Station on the shore of Lake Ontario round 70km east of Toronto.
The Ontario provincial authorities says the 300MW BWRX-300 unit would be the first operational SMR among the many G7 nations, and can energy 300,000 properties from 2030, when it’s scheduled to be completed.
Run by OPG, a province-owned energy firm, the Darlington web site is an current nuclear energy station with 4 Candu reactors giving a mixed producing capability of three.5GW.
AtkinsRéalis will present challenge administration, licensing, engineering, design, procurement, development help and commissioning for the brand new SMR.
‘First new nuclear construct in 30 years’
“Our involvement within the G7’s first grid-scale SMR and Canada’s first nuclear new construct in roughly 30 years reaffirms our main place within the international nuclear vitality market, for each massive and small reactor applied sciences,” stated president and chief govt Ian L. Edwards.
AtkinsRéalis has been the architect-engineer on the Darlington New Nuclear Challenge alliance staff since 2023, working with GE Vernova Hitachi Nuclear Power and Aecon Kiewit Nuclear Companions.
Web site preparation undertaken in an earlier validation-phase contract has been completed on time and finances.
‘Energy demand to surge by 75%’
The Canadian Nuclear Security Fee issued a license to construct the primary of 4 deliberate SMRs on the Darlington web site in April, and the Ontario authorities gave its last approval for it on 8 Could.
“Ontario’s energy demand is anticipated to surge by 75% by 2050 and we’ll want all sources of cleaner energy to fulfill the necessity, together with massive and small nuclear reactor know-how,” stated Joe St. Julian, president of nuclear at AtkinsRéalis.
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