NB Power Has  Applied for the First  License for  ARC-100 Project at the Point Lepreau Nuclear Generating Station site
On June 30th, 2023 New Brunswick Power submitted an Environmental Impact Assessment registration document to the New Brunswick Department of Environment and Local Government (DELG) and a Licence to Prepare Site Application to the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission  for a 100 MW ARC-100 sodium-cooled fast reactor on the site of the existing Point Lepreau Nuclear Generating Station (PLNGS). ​

Visit the web site of the Coalition for Responsible Energy Development in New Brunswick (CRED-NB) for news and analysis about the ARC-100 project, including:

• New Brunswick government and NB Power misleading the public about plan for ARC-100 radioactive waste
• March 2023 Request that ARC-100 be designated for a federal impact assessment
• Small modular nuclear reactors are unsafe: CRED-NB [video - 2023]​

Promotional Materials about the ARC-100

• Promotional brochure from "ARC Clean Technology"
• Undated presentation posted by U.S. N.R.C.
• Canada's SMR Action Plan (2020)

Other Players and Plays with ARC-100

• CNL Partners with ARC Canada to advance fuel development (2022)
• ARC Clean Technology and Invest Alberta sign agreement to support the deployment of advanced Small Modular Reactors in Alberta (2023)
• Port Authority Announces Plans For ARC-100 SMR At New Brunswick Green Energy Hub (2022)
• ARC teams up with Hatch for New Brunswick SMR deployment (June 2022)
  

• On June 30, 2023, the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission announced that New Brunswick Power had submitted an application to the CNSC for a licence to prepare site (LTPS) for a small modular reactor (SMR) and that "the LTPS application documentation will be made publicly available in the coming weeks. CNSC staff will conduct a detailed and thorough review of the application. Information on the project will eventually be available through the CNSC’s Open  Government Portal" 
• The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission's web page about New Brunswick Power’s ARC-100 Project at the Point Lepreau Nuclear Generating Station site is HERE
• The CNSC's web page for their "Vendor Design Review" process is HERE; in 2019 they completed  Phase 1 Pre-Licensing Vendor Design Review Executive Summary: ARC Nuclear Canada Inc; the CNSC web page indicated that Phase 2 of the CNSC review began in February 2022 and the "Assessment in progress" (as of June 2023)
• New Brunswick Power announced on June 30th, 2023 that "NB Power, in partnership with ARC Clean Technology Canada, Inc. (ARC), is pleased to announce the submission of an Environmental Impact Assessment registration document to the Department of Environment and Local Government (DELG) and a Licence to Prepare Site Application to the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) on the advanced Small Modular Reactor (SMR) project. These submissions mark an important milestone in the plans to construct and operate an advanced small modular reactor on the site of the existing Point Lepreau Nuclear Generating Station (PLNGS)." Read the news release from New Brunswick Power HERE
• New Brunswick Power's web site promoting small modular reactors is HERE