Diversity is key: why we should pursue all options to meet climate change goals

With the recent announcement by the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission that Global First Power’s application for a licence to prepare site for an SMR project at the Chalk River Laboratories is moving into formal licence review, we are one step closer to bringing SMRs to market in Canada.

The Canadian Nuclear Laboratories campus in Chalk River, Ont., pictured on May 27, 2019. To avoid an energy supply crunch, Canada will need diversity of options: not just hydro, nuclear, wind, and solar, but also an optimum mix of different designs of each of these to allow us to adapt to unforeseen events, writes AECL's Fred Dermarkar.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY FRED DERMARKAR

June 7, 2021

Achieving Canada’s climate action and GHG emission reduction goals will be challenging. It will require a diversity of options, existing and emerging ones. There is a need to bring to bear all technology options—renewables, nuclear, hydrogen and more. We need all of them to be successful. This...

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