The proposed reactor would be small enough to be transported on a large truck and could offer up to five megawatts of power, enough to run remote work sites or hundreds of homes.
The announcement, is the government’s third investment in a SMR company, but in contrast the government’s new planned green bond program specifically prohibits investments in nuclear energy. “We achieved the greatest greenhouse gas reduction in North American history with the coal phase out which was 90 per cent powered by nuclear energy,” he said.Adrienne Vaupshas, a spokesperson for Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, said Canada’s green bonds were following international standards.
Champagne said just because nuclear could not be funded with the green bond program did not mean the government could not help promising new projects. Keefer said the popularity of Bruce Power’s offering made it clear there were plenty of environmentally conscious investors prepared to invest in nuclear.
Let’s greenwash things and live like apes again!
Canadian Science and Technology Museum Ottawa 100,000th CANDU reactor fuel bundle. This one fuel bundle produced up to 1,000.000 kilowatt hours of electricity equal to 450 tons of coal or 2050 barrels of oil presented to P.E. Trudeau June 17, 1975
it doesnt make much co2, but what do you do with the nuclear waste?
Greener, safer and more reliable than the alternatives.
Yes it is.