Chronology - Key milestones
- Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission holds "Readiness to Regulate SMRS" session, inviting the nuclear industry to promote SMRS, January 2021
- Government of Canada released SMR Action Plan December 2020
- Ontario Power Generation announced plans to build three prototype SMRs at the Darlington nuclear station in November 2020
- Federal government announced a $20 million grant to Terrestrial Energy in October 2020
- Comment period on CNSC Draft Regulatory Document on Licensing SMRs ended December 2018
- Government of Canada released SMR Roadmap November 2018
- Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission "Pre-licensing Vendor Design Review", commenced in 2016, ongoing
- Small modular reactors: strategy, approaches and challenges. Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission Discussion Paper DIS-16-04. May 2016
- Ontario Ministry of Energy SMR Deployment Feasibility Study Feasibility of the Potential Deployment of Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) in Ontario. June 2016
- The Nuclear Sector at a Crossroads: Fostering Innovation and Energy Security for Canada and the World, Standing Committee Report, 2017
- CNL publishes Perspectives on Canada's SMR Opportunity, summarizing expressions of interest from the nuclear industry, October 2017
- CNL receives four responses to Request for Proposals, June 2018
- Natural Resources Canada launches SMR "roadmap", February 2018
- CNSC Draft Regulatory Document - comment by September 28t
- Canadian Nuclear Society's "First" annual conference on SMRs Nov 6-8
- Release of Natural Resources Canada's "Roadmap" for Small Modular Reactors, November 7th 2018 at CNS conference
- CNSC receives first licence application for an SMR at Chalk River in April 2019
- CEAA announces public comment on Project Description by Global First Power as first step in an environmental assessment July 2019
- Ontario Power Generation announces siting of three small modular reactors at Darlington Nuclear Generating Station November 2020
- Canada aborts the release of an "Action Plan" for small modular Reactors November 2020