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Ontario Power Generation and the province are planning three more small modular reactors at the site of the Darlington nuclear power plant, located in Clarington, Ont., which is about 70 kilometres east of Toronto.

One small modular reactor (SMR) is already being built there, with construction of the first unit set to be complete by 2028.

Ontario Power Generation president Ken Hartwick says the planned fleet of SMRs would produce 1,200 megawatts of electricity, enough to power the equivalent of 1.2 million homes by the mid-2030s.

That is around when rising electricity demand is projected to surpass supply by about 5,000 megawatts and Energy Minister Todd Smith has made a number of recent announcements aimed at closing that gap, including a new, large-scale nuclear plant at Bruce Power on Lake Huron.

Smith says it is part of Ontario's plan to meet electricity demand with emissions-free power, though some critics have warned about relying on SMRs as a relatively untested power source. Small modular reactors use similar technology to traditional nuclear power plants, but they are much smaller. [...]

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Note from the poster @el-shab-hussein: I'm not sure if environmental activists mean "let's create another underwater mausoleum for nuclear waste" by "emissions-free".

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It's very easy to say that nuclear power is 'clean energy' when you're not the one dealing with the waste. It's the same as landfills, the production of nuclear power is wasteful, we're just offsetting it on Indigenous and colonized lands and waters. As long as the privileged aren't suffering the consequences it's 'clean', right?

oh my god the willful ignoring of radioactive waste drives me bananas