GLOBAL FIRST POWER HAS APPLIED FOR A LICENCE FOR A HIGH TEMPERATURE GAS-COOLED MOLTEN SALT NUCLEAR REACTOR TO BE CONSTRUCTED AND OPERATED ON THE OTTAWA RIVER. ​ 

Update from the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission - July 2023 -  "There are no new updates on the CNSC’s licensing technical assessment of GFP’s proposal. The licensing technical assessments are ongoing, and GFP continues to develop and revise documents supporting its licensing application to address CNSC staff’s comments."

On May 9th, 2022 the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission  announced participant funding for review of draft Environmental Impact Statement.  The deadline to apply was 29 July 2022.
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On July 15th 2019 the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency posted a notice of the "commencement" of an environmental assessment of Global First Power's proposal to construct a small modular reactor at the Canadian Nuclear Laboratories operated site at Chalk River Ontario. In this first step of the EA process, the public has sixty  days to comment on a project description.

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GLOBAL FIRST POWER ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT 
​Related links:

•  Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency project page for Global First Power's modular reactor project
•  Notice of the "commencement" of an environmental assessment
• Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) page about EA of Global First Power's project proposal
• ​CNSC page about Small Modular Reactors
•  Global First Power's  website page, including links, project partners, and proposed project timeline
•  Canadian Nuclear Laboratories post about the EA commencement with links to their SMR campaign
• Canadian Nuclear Laboratories SMR campaign page
• project description 
• Global First  release HERE.​

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Review Milestones

• May 2022 - CNSC announces participant funding for review of draft Environmental Impact Statement
• August 19, 2020 - Record of Decision on the scope of the environmental assessment for GFP Micro Modular Reactor project
• Submissions on the Scope of the EA by CELA  and others on the scope of the EA
• April 28, 2020 - CNSC staff disposition of comments from public and Indigenous peoples on the project description
• January 27, 2020 - Notice of opportunity to submit a Written Intervention on the Scope of an Environmental Assessment​
• July 15, 2019 - Public comments invited on project description
• July 15, 2019 - Notice of Commencement of an Environmental Assessment

Excerpt from the Project Description
"Global First Power (GFP), the Project proponent, is proposing a Small Modular Reactor (SMR) project using MMR technology and having it sited on the Chalk River Laboratories (CRL) property, which is Federal land owned by Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL). ... The main physical works related to the Project are a Nuclear Plant, which includes an MMR High Temperature Gas-cooled Reactor (HTGR) that will provide approximately 15 MWt of process heat to a (non-nuclear) Adjacent Plant via molten salt, as well as all the equipment required to transport the heat from the reactor, support the operation of the Nuclear Plant and ensure its safety. 

​Articles about High Temperature Gas Reactors
​Accident Scenarios Involving Pebble Bed High Temperature Reactors, Matthias Englerta, Friederike Frießb, and M. V. Ramana, , 2017
The checkered operational history of high temperature gas-cooled reactors, M. V. Ramana, Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, 2016
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