What About Canada’s Fuel Supply Chain? Canada appears on the verge of a nuclear-power renaissance instigated by the need for reliable carbon-free energy, with the provinces and the federal government putting their weight behind a wide range of initiatives. [...] The BWRX-300 reactors use enriched fuel, and Canada has no enrichment facilities, and will need to buy it from facilities in the US, France, Germany. [...] HALEU fuel is not produced in Canada and is not available in Western countries at commercial scale, though the US Department of Energy is exploring options to support testing and demonstration of HALEU-dependant reactors. [...] However, concerns have been raised about the extraction of plutonium, as it can be used in nuclear devices and the federal government has yet to decide if reprocessing will be permitted in Canada. [...] Eng., FCSSE, a nuclear engineer and a professor emeritus at the University of Regina and the University of New Brunswick To send a comment or leave feedback, email us at blog@cdhowe.org.
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