CANADA | PAVILION
Laurentis Energy Partners is an innovator in the clean-energy
industry, offering expertise in nuclear, hydro, and solar generation, inspections and engineering, nuclear transportation and materials recycling, and medical isotopes. It is installing and commissioning at custom-designed tool at Darlington to produce He-3 from tritium stored at the Darlington site, for use in quantum computing, neutron research, border security and medical imaging.
to be used at scale in roles such as transportation and energy storage. The province began a dialogue on hydrogen with a discussion paper in late 2020. It noted that Ontario’s low-emission electricity grid – with hydroelectric, natural gas and renewable generating capacity alongside nuclear – has allowed the province to avoid up to 30Mt per year of greenhouse gas emissions. The discussion document names Bruce County among the regions in Ontario with “particular opportunities to advance hydrogen”, because it has the world’s largest operating nuclear station and it is exploring the opportunity to store hydrogen using its underground salt caverns. A 2020 report from a group of Canadian
nuclear and cleantech professionals chaired by Bruce Power said 23,000 hydrogen sector jobs could be created in Ontario, based on a scenario of high hydrogen adoption. It suggested hydrogen could generate $2.5 billion of spending per year. Ontario’s document said that as adoption of low carbon hydrogen is still in the early stages “there is an opportunity to position Ontario as a leader in this space.”
The Canadian Nuclear Association (CNA) has been the
national voice of the Canadian nuclear industry since 1960. It recently joined the Canadian Electricity Association, the Canadian Renewable Energy Association, Electricity Human Resources Canada, Marine Renewables Canada, and WaterPower Canada to create Electricity Alliance Canada (EAC), a coalition promoting the power of electrification. Electricity Alliance Canada’s mandate is to enable, promote and advocate the increased use of electricity throughout the Canadian economy to help achieve Canada’s net-zero emissions target.
Kinectrics provides life cycle management services for the electricity industry. It recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding with X-energy to support the
establishment of Helius, a clean energy innovation centre, in Canada. The campus will provide testing facilities for systems and components of the Xe-100 and other high-temperature gas-cooled reactor SMR technology.
Meanwhile, Bruce Power has launched Bruce
Power Net Zero Inc, aiming to “unlock the potential of other complementary technologies to nuclear, including storage, hydrogen, carbon off-sets, renewables and vehicle electrification to achieve a Net Zero future.” It will identify and invest in clean energy initiatives that complement the role of nuclear and it has sought Expressions of Interest for new carbon-reduction projects.
SNC Lavalin says it combines decades of experience in clean
power, nuclear and oil and gas to deliver lifecycle solutions in an evolving sector. It describes itself as the ‘steward of CANDU technology’. It is currently at work on the re-tube and feeder replacement project at Darlington.
BWXT Nuclear Energy Canada supplies precision manufactured
components, services and CANDU fuel for the commercial nuclear power industry, among other nuclear offerings. It is celebrating the award of a US$38.2 million contract to design and supply complex parts and assemblies to enable refurbishment of all eight fuelling machine heads at Darlington. John MacQuarrie, president of BWXT’s
Nuclear Power Group, said “We are excited to get started on this project that will again showcase BWXT’s engineering and manufacturing solutions that help our customers to operate their plants reliably.” It recently won engineering design
contracts awarded by Terrestrial Energy for steam generators and heat exchangers for use in the Integral Molten Salt Reactor (IMSR), a Generation IV nuclear power plant. This follows an engineering services agreement initially signed by the two companies for design of steam generators in December 2018.
30 mt/yr
Ontario believes its nuclear plants have allowed it to avoid greenhouse gas emissions
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