Ontario’s Minister of Labour, Training and Skills Development Monte McNaughton spoke on government efforts to boost skilled trades recruiting at the Buildings Show in Toronto.

And then there were two. The competition for the location of the Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO)’s spent nuclear fuel rod storage site, a deep geological repository (DGR), is expected to take a few more years, but the two municipalities still in the race are Ignace in Northern Ontario and Huron-Bruce.

Excellent progress by ARC Nuclear Canada, Inc. (ARC Canada) continues in the Province of New Brunswick to bring its small modular reactor (SMR) technology to market. On Monday, December 9th, at the ARC Canada offices in the Brunswick Square Tower, the Hon. Mike Holland, Minister of Energy in a delivered speech to a large crowd, affirmed the ultimate build of ARC Canada’s technology at the Point Lepreau Generating Station (PLGS) due to the significant advancement made by the company.

L3Harris Technologies (NYSE:LHX), has been selected by Societatea Nationala Nuclearelectrica S.A. (SNN), a Romanian state-owned utilities company, to upgrade the Cernavodă utility operator training simulator.

The Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO) is launching the Remote First Nations Energy Efficiency Pilot Program to make electricity more affordable for remote Indigenous communities that will soon be connected to Ontario’s electricity grid.

The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) and the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) have selected Terrestrial Energy’s Integral Molten Salt Reactor (IMSR®) for the first joint technical review of an advanced, non-light water nuclear reactor technology.