{"id":28173,"date":"2020-01-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-30T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ashleydev.com\/2020\/01\/30\/cna2020-pre-conference-seminar-focuses-on-smr-progress-in-new-brunswick\/"},"modified":"2020-11-12T15:24:18","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T20:24:18","slug":"cna2020-pre-conference-seminar-focuses-on-smr-progress-in-new-brunswick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cna.ca\/fr\/2020\/01\/30\/cna2020-pre-conference-seminar-focuses-on-smr-progress-in-new-brunswick\/","title":{"rendered":"CNA2020 Pre-conference Seminar Focuses on SMR Progress in New Brunswick"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Small modular reactors (SMRs) are a clean energy option for Canada\u2019s provinces and northern territories. This year\u2019s pre-conference SMR seminar will showcase SMR developments in New Brunswick as NB Power<\/a> celebrates its 100th anniversary.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

In 2018, New Brunswick Energy Solutions Corporation, a provincial Crown corporation, committed $10 million toward establishing an SMR research cluster in New Brunswick. Advanced Reactor Concepts (ARC) Nuclear and Moltex Energy also invested $5 million each to advance research and development of their technologies. The two companies are working with the University of New Brunswick (UNB) to establish curriculum as well as plans for research and development at UNB and the Centre for Nuclear Energy Research. Both vendors are active in the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission\u2019s (CNSC) vendor design review process and one partner has successfully completed Phase 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Utility Plan for SMR Development and Deployment<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Ontario Power Generation Vice-President of Nuclear Regulatory Affairs and Stakeholder Relations and Regulatory Readiness Working Group Co-Chair Robin Manley will kick off the seminar. He will describe the pan-Canadian approach and how the work in New Brunswick fits within this approach. To move to commercial demonstration, ARC and Moltex would need to have each of their technologies successfully complete Phase 2 of the CNSC vendor design review, and their financial and project planning predictions would need to continue to show promise. If these conditions are met, then NB Power envisions commercial demonstrations of both reactor types at the Point Lepreau site with an in-service date of about 2030.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Manley\u2019s presentation will be followed by four panel presentations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vision for New Brunswick<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Chair:<\/strong> Assistant Deputy Minister Energy and Mines, New Brunswick Department of Natural Resources and Energy Development, Bill Breckinridge<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Panelists:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n