Tag: small modular reactors
IRENA Chief Highlights Renewable Surge and Dismisses Doubts on Energy Transition
The first day of the Singapore International Energy Week (SIEW) saw Francesco La Camera, the Director General of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), delivering a resolute address, emphasizing the unprecedented dominance of renewables in new energy projects and firmly asserting that the global energy transition is accelerating, not faltering. … [continued]
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Singapore and Sweden Strengthen Energy Partnership at SIEW 2025
SINGAPORE — The Energy Market Authority of Singapore (EMA) and the Swedish government inaugurated a bilateral energy forum on the sidelines of the 18th Singapore International Energy Week, transforming a diplomatic understanding signed during a royal state visit into an operational framework for clean energy cooperation. Strategic context The Singapore … [continued]
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Carney’s Nuclear Detour: Darlington’s SMRs Will Raise Prices, Emissions, & Political Risks
In October 2025, the federal government officially designated the four-unit SMR build at Ontario Power Generation’s Darlington site as a “Major Project” and invested $2 billion through the Canada Growth Fund, alongside $1 billion from the provincial Building Ontario Fund, signalling that the federal government views the SMR programme both … [continued]
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Small Modular Reactors and the Big Questions of Cost & Waste
The publication of Kim and Macfarlane’s 2026 study on small modular reactors is a moment worth pausing over. Nuclear energy sits at the margins of most serious decarbonization pathways today, but SMRs have been marketed as the technology that could change that. They are advertised as cheaper, safer, faster to … [continued]
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Canada’s $456B Megaprojects List: Building The Past Or Electrifying The Future?
Canada is preparing to spend potentially half a trillion dollars on major infrastructure projects that will shape the economy and society for decades. The list spans ports, high speed rail, hydroelectricity, nuclear, mining, oil and gas, carbon capture, offshore wind, and transmission. On paper it looks like a bold nation … [continued]
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