Ontario is starting preliminary work to expand a nuclear power generating plant, teaming up with Bruce Power to potentially build the world’s largest such facility in order to address electricity demand over the coming decade.
Bruce Power will begin community consultations and conduct environmental assessments in seeking federal approval of siting up to 4,800 megawatts (MW) of new nuclear power generation on its current site, said a press release issued by the provincial government on July 5.
The expansion of the plant’s eight reactors, which currently have about 6.2 gigawatts of capacity, will potentially make it the world’s largest nuclear generation site, surpassing Japan’s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant, the biggest in the world with seven reactors at more than 8 gigawatts of capacity….