I’m not Canadian so news to me that Canada has built nuclear plants around the world.

As in the UK we were previously asking a French-Chinese partnership to build here so not sure why Canada didn’t get chosen for that.

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protocolture 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

>As in the UK we were previously asking a French-Chinese partnership to build here so not sure why Canada didn’t get chosen for that.

Its crazy how fast britain has fallen off nuclear, the original british nuclear rollout should have stood the UK up as a permanent nuclear energy powerhouse but France took it from them.

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fsuts 2 hours ago | parent [-]

If not aware - uk government is backing Roll Royce to produce small reactor solutions (SMR). And Rolls is going around the world signing up sales agreements for them.

The underlying tech though is yet to be proven, so some risk won’t deliver on time/to budget/at all.

	▲	protocolture 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		SMR's seem like a pipe dream tbh.

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HerbManic 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

So France and Canada both build nuclear plants. Must be something in the french language that makes folks just want to do the cool stuff.

If it is anything like all my french cookware, it will be done wonderfully.

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badc0ffee 7 hours ago | parent [-]

This analysis is missing that Quebec doesn't have any nuclear plants. (Although NB has one, which counts for half?)

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olalonde 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

AtkinsRéalis (fka SNC-Lavalin) does build nuclear reactors and is headquartered in Montreal[0].

[0] https://www.atkinsrealis.com/en/markets-and-services/markets...

	▲	newsclues 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		They bought CANDU reactor designs from the government

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gottorf 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Quebec's geography is so favorable for hydropower that they don't need nuclear, or any other source of electricity.

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applied_heat 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Quebec has one they shut it down, hydro Quebec is a hydro power company not a nuclear power company

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HerbManic 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Well there goes that theory.

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QGQBGdeZREunxLe 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The French are undoubtedly a good choice considering nuclear produces the majority of their electricity and EDF already operates in the UK.

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crypttales 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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