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.
AN ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT REVIEW UNDER CEAA 2012 IS UNDERWAY.
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.
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. Click HERE for one-pager Click HERE for backgrounder GLOBAL FIRST POWER ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT Related links:
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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. |
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The checkered operational history of high temperature gas-cooled reactors
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Accident Scenarios Involving Pebble Bed High Temperature Reactors, Matthias Englerta, Friederike Frießb, and M. V. Ramana, SCIENCE & GLOBAL SECURITY, 2017
The checkered operational history of high temperature gas-cooled reactors
M. V. Ramana, Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, 2016