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Published Date: June 24, 2026

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Canada Building West’s First Grid-Scale SMR

Construction has begun on the Western world’s first grid-scale Small Modular Reactor (SMR), though small is not what comes to mind, consi…

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Construction has begun on the Western world’s first grid-scale Small Modular Reactor (SMR), though small is not what comes to mind, considering that the machine will fit on two soccer fields. According to AutoNotion, a 953-tonne slab of steel and concrete was lowered into a 35-meter shaft at Ontario’s Darlington New Nuclear Project site, “ending a decade of talk” about the new nuclear technology and ushering in a period of action. The slab is the base mat of the first BWRX-300 modular plant designed by GE Vernova —…

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