Ontario Secures Agreement to Advance World's Largest Nuclear Generating Station

[NNadir]

Apparently the program may produce 10,000 MWe of reliable clean energy.

The article:

Ontario Secures Agreement to Advance World’s Largest Nuclear Generating Station

Subtitle:

Project in Port Hope will create 10,500 jobs and add $235 billion to provincial economy

An excerpt with a sentence bolded to indicate that they have our number and increasingly want nothing to do with us, as our nation collapses into anarchy:

PORT HOPE – As part of the government’s plan to protect Ontario and advance the development of affordable, reliable and clean nuclear power, Minister Stephen Lecce announced that Ontario Power Generation (OPG) has signed a partnership agreement with the Municipality of Port Hope for new energy generation at the Wesleyville site. The Wesleyville project will support 10,500 jobs across Ontario, including 1,700 new good-paying jobs in Port Hope, representing an average 15 to 20 per cent boost to overall employment levels in the local area, while contributing $235 billion to Ontario’s GDP over its lifespan.

“With more chaos coming from the White House, now is exactly the time to double down on Canada – putting our workers, technology, and supply chain first,” said Stephen Lecce, Minister of Energy and Mines. “This agreement is an important step forward as we build the world’s largest nuclear station, creating over 10,000 good-paying jobs and reliable power for up to 10 million homes. We express thanks to Port Hope for the partnership with OPG, as we work together to boost both the local and Canadian economy, with over 90 per cent of nuclear investment stamped with Made in Canada.”

With electricity demand set to increase by up to 90 per cent on the high side, meeting this growing demand is crucial to avoiding potential future electricity disruptions such as brownouts or blackouts seen in other jurisdictions. Without timely investment in new, dependable power sources, Ontario risks future supply shortfalls, higher energy costs and missed economic opportunities. Early assessments show the Wesleyville site alone could support up to 10,000 megawatts of new nuclear generation—enough to power the equivalent of 10 million homes—highlighting both the scale of the opportunity and the risk of delay.

The Wesleyville site, which is maintained by OPG, located near existing transmission, road and railway infrastructure, and already zoned for new electricity generation, is well-suited to support a large new nuclear site. On January 12, 2026, OPG submitted their Initial Project Description to the Impact Assessment Agency of Canada for approval...

Articles of these types often refer to "homes" as if they were units of energy, although they are not. Despite this minor criticism of the news release, this is good news for the world in general, given the collapse of the planetary atmosphere which is now on going.

I trust you're having a pleasant Sunday.

[eppur_se_muova]

1. Kicking for the bold text. nt

[NNadir]

2. Seemingly in the the business of kicking my own post via yours, there is a silver lining for the world in the bold text.

It's only "silver" because I don't think that the collapse of the United States and the abrogation of its important role in the post World War II world is a good thing overall for much, if not all, of the world. We played an important role in history in this context, our mistakes acknowledged.

The thus "silver lining" is this:

putting our (Canadian... ...technology... ...first

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This means CANDU reactors, potentially five or more added to the world heavy water reactor fleet. In the DUPIC cycle, they can be utilized to burn once through uranium without reprocessing and even better, by incorporating thorium, can be breeder reactors.

The doubling time is much longer than a fast reactor when a part ternary thorium/plutonium/uranium fuel is placed in a heavy water reactor, but the real point is that the fuel will do two things of importance.

First, it will increase the burn up of the fuel from the roughly 10-15 MW-day burn ups associated with unenriched fuel to well over 60 MW-day, in effect vastly increasing the fuel efficiency, analogous to the "gas mileage," if you will.

Secondly the fuel when removed from the reactor will feature uranium that will be useless for weapons proliferation, as well as plutonium equally useless for that purpose, with the bonus that through reprocessing to remove the valuable fission products, the uranium will be available for direct use in any other kind of thermal reactor on the planet without any kind enrichment. In fact, one can imagine that the fuel might require dilution with depleted uranium in traditional PWR and BWR.

This would go a long way to making uranium mining unnecessary for centuries. The thorium is readily available in the tailings from lanthanide mines operated, in part, for the electric car and useless wind industries.

It is thus good that the Canadians turn away from American technology with revulsion since we are a country run by racist, ignorant, murderous, pedophiles.

[eppur_se_muova]

3. Since I know titanium ores can contain rare earths, and the REEs may be extracted from the residues of

Ti mining, it occurred to me that such residues might contain Th as well. Evidently they can, but are basically an "impurity within an impurity", since titanium ore deposits often contain monazite sands, which are the source of both the REEs and Th. So IF the titanium mining residues are accumulated to be "mined" for REEs, the residues left over could them be accumulated to be "mined" for Th. I doubt that would have much economic impact, but it would convert radioactive "waste" to fuel. Maybe if demand overtops supply by a large enough factor, it might be worth pursuing, in $/kW-hr terms, if the reduction in hazards costs are included. Probably not at the present.

[NNadir]

4. I have long considered monazite mine tailings as a source for thorium. It just makes sense.

I had no idea that titanium ores were found with monazite, so thanks for enlightening me. My geology knowledge is somewhat weak.

I had great hopes for the FFC process to refine titanium ores, but apparently the commercialization of this industry has been sluggish.

I had hoped that FFC would do for titanium what the Hall-Heroult process did for aluminum, which is to make it commercially available.