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Mar 2023
1h 13m

Ontario’s Nuclear Advantage

DR. CHRIS KEEFER
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Gary Rose, VP of New Nuclear Growth at Ontario Power Generation, walks us through the CANDU refurbishment program whose stunning successes have laid the foundation for deployment of the west’s 1st grid scale SMR, the GE Hitachi BWRX-300. Gary and I explore the thesis that Ontario is the best equipped jurisdiction in the west to deploy new nuclear, which no ... Show More
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