Don't give them ideas.

I'm sure they will manufacture you parts on demand and FedEx overnight them for your old out of warranty Chinese EV LOL.

Unless there is a lot of carryover between models it sounds like an absolute disaster for stocking of spare/replacement parts.

Generally something to be worked around.

And it has the most capacity when it is completely stopped, but throughput and capacity are not the same.

I don't actually care if he gets out at all. But he still probably should.

Maybe try to get out more.

NP. Some of the nutty people here on /. apparently think we are going to just stop halfway and give up (that may be how they roll, but no). The heavy forgings are already done, there is no stopping now. Others figure maybe they did not consider fuel costs and think it will be too expensive to run, LOL as if. The shallowness of the anti-nuclear crowd makes me shake my head. Fortunately they have little sway here, both major political parties support SMRs so political interference is unlikely, and OPG has a proven track record, having just finished a major refurbishment of their conventional fleet, also on time and budget. If anyone can successfully build SMRs, it is them.

They should have hired you long ago. You could have prevented all that cheap clean power they already manage effectively.

That is the plan, both in Ontario and hopefully by 2050 we have many of them across the country and around the globe.

We also have lots of uranium and you are clutching at straws. That is another potential supply chain and economic opportunity. OPG also already has 5.5 GW of operating nuclear, so they probably get a good discount :-). As for waste, that is not specific to OPG, but it being handled at a national level. All nuclear power (including the SMRs when they come online) have been paying into a fund for this for almost as long as we have had nuclear power, and a site has been selected for our deep geological repository, similar to the one Finland just opened IIRC.

https://www.nwmo.ca/en/Canadas...

Just because some places are incompetent does not mean everyone is.

Yes, it is the first of what is expected to be many if it meets expectations. Given OPGs successful track record orther provinces are already expressing interest in their own domestically built nuclear capacity. They have of course done the economic analysis beforehand.

https://www.opg.com/documents/...

OPG is a world leader in nuclear power, so no reason to expect this won't be successful like all their other projects. A big part of the first one is establishing the supply chains to be able to crank them out at scale. China is doing the same with heavy forge capacity for large reactors.

https://www.world-nuclear-news...

The first reactor is expected to take 8 years, but subsequent ones are expected to take around five. Of course they are building this project on the site of several existing reactors, which was done intentionally to minimize legal challenges and permitting times/costs. If those issues add substantial time to construction in other places, as is typical, then that is a societal failure specific to them rather the technology.

We do have a functional regulatory environment here, so I expect it will be as safe as the rest of OPG's nuclear fleet. For people who still worry there is always Xanax.

Here in Canada OPG continues to move along on time and on time and on budget.

Site construction progress - Spring 2026

Excavation and blasting of all three major on-site shafts – tunnel boring machine launch shaft, reactor building shaft, and forebay shaft – is now complete. In April, the 2.1 million pound diaphragm plate steel composite basemat – the foundation of the Unit 1 reactor building – was successfully placed 35 metres down into the reactor shaft, allowing for construction on the reactor building to begin moving upwards. A dedicated crane foundation pad is being prepared beside the reactor shaft to support a tower crane which will be used for component installation and material handling activities at the reactor building. At the turbine building, pile installation is nearing completion, while construction of the Administration and Control Buildings remains on track. Construction of the Holt Switching Station continues to progress. This station will transmit electricity generated by Unit 1 to Ontario’s electricity grid until the planned SMR units are connected to the Bowmanville Switching Station. The tunnel boring machine – nicknamed Harriet Brooks - is being assembled ahead of tunneling commencement in support of the Condenser Cooling Water system later this summer.

https://www.opg.com/projects-s...

I'll continue to post updates for the haters as construction continues.

These are the people who killed CentOS.

They know the letter of OSS, not the spirit.

Such is the nature of tools all throughout history. This may be new to you, but it not new at all.

What were they going to be assigned to?