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The International Energy Agency’s (IEA’s) Canada 2022: Energy Policy Review has found that, since the last IEA review in 2015, Canada has made a series of enterprising international and domestic commitments and has made progress towards transforming its energy system.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Tuesday, 18 January 2022
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsiea-report-on-canada-welcomes-smr-developments-9406494
Canada's electricity system is amongst the cleanest in the world, thanks to hydro and nuclear power, a policy review by the International Energy Agency (IEA) has found. Launching the report on 13 January, IEA Executive Director Fatih Birol praised Canada's leadership in the development of small modular reactors (SMRs) and expressed the agency's support for the Canadian government's "ambitious" clean energy transition.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Saturday, 15 January 2022
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/IEA-praises-Canada-clean-energy-transition-efforts
Ontario Power Generation (OPG) said on 30 March that its Centre for Canadian Nuclear Sustainability (CCNS) has joined forces with Moltex Energy in a project aimed at recycling used fuel from Candu reactors. CCNS will provide CAD1 million ($795,000) in funding to assist Moltex in demonstrating the technical viability of a new process to recycle used Candu fuel.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 02 April 2021
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsopg-and-moltex-launch-project-to-recycle-candu-fuel-8644674
CCNS will provide CAD1m (€680,000) in funding to help Canada-based Moltex demonstrate the technical viability of a new process to recycle used Candu fuel.
When removed from an operating reactor, used Candu fuel still contains energy in the form of fissionable uranium and plutonium isotopes, which cannot be used without removing fission products. Moltex’s process would recover these energy resources and prepare them for use as new fuel in other advanced reactor designs, potentially reducing the volume of the material requiring long-term storage in a deep geological repository.
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Thursday, 01 April 2021
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/opg-and-moltex-launch-project-to-recycle-used-fuel-from-candu-reactors-3-3-2021
Innovation has always been at the heart of the nuclear power industry and its future depends on this commitment to technological advancement in both large and small reactor designs. This was the message of the International Framework for Nuclear Energy Cooperation (IFNEC) General Ministerial Conference held in Washington DC last week.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Tuesday, 19 November 2019
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Conference-Advancing-the-rebirth-of-nuclear-power