Saskatchewan could be going nuclear, at least with its power.
The province announced that the Saskatchewan Research Council (SRC) and Westinghouse Electric Canada signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to advance micro-reactors.
Both Westinghouse and SRC will jointly develop a project to locate a reactor in Saskatchewan to develop and test industrial, research, and energy use applications.
The micro-reactors can produce five megawatts of electricity and over 13 megawatts of high-temperature heat or operate in combined heat and power mode.
The reactors are half the size of a hockey rink and could provide power solutions at a different scale than centrally generated utility-scale power. It can support various applications, including remote mining operations, remote communities, individual industrial heat and power scenarios, distributed hydrogen generation and integrated energy solutions.
The SRC said they hope to have one operational by the end of the decade.