Pickering, Ontario: Ontario Power Generation announced July 22 that it was launching a Centre for Canadian Nuclear Sustainability in Pickering, to be a world-class facility that will attract skilled jobs, innovative businesses and economic development to the Durham region as well as advance solutions for minimizing nuclear materials and recycling clean materials.
With participation from the wider industry, the Centre is to operate as a hub to:
• Leverage and coordinate Ontario's talents and competencies “to make Canada a world leader in nuclear decommissioning”
• Advance solutions for nuclear materials, with a continuing emphasis on minimizing its environmental footprint
• Create economic growth in Ontario and a significant number of highly skilled jobs over the next several years
• Mobilize Ontario's nuclear supply chain to develop tooling required for nuclear decommissioning
• Collaborate by forming partnerships with the industry, community, local businesses, academia, Indigenous communities and global entities to “discover research, development and export opportunities for innovative nuclear energy solutions.”
"OPG and the nuclear industry in Ontario are already recognized for their excellence in the safe and reliable operation of CANDU nuclear stations," said Carla Carmichael, Vice President of Nuclear Decommissioning Strategies for OPG. "The Centre will integrate collaboration and research to identify innovative solutions in the nuclear sector while also supporting the work underway to prepare for decommissioning the Pickering Nuclear Generating Station."