{"id":32900,"date":"2025-10-23T11:30:20","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T18:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/federal-ontario-governments-contributing-3b-to-small-nuclear-reactor-project\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T11:30:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T18:30:20","slug":"federal-ontario-governments-contributing-3b-to-small-nuclear-reactor-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/federal-ontario-governments-contributing-3b-to-small-nuclear-reactor-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal, Ontario governments contributing $3B to small nuclear reactor project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>BOWMANVILLE, ONT. \u2014 The federal and Ontario governments are putting a total of $3 billion toward a project to build four small nuclear reactors in the Greater Toronto Area.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Mark Carney has added the Darlington New Nuclear Project to his list of projects deemed to be in the national interest and therefore worthy of fast tracking.<\/p>\n<p>He and Premier Doug Ford are at the site east of Toronto today to announce that their governments are contributing $2 billion and $1 billion, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Ontario Power Generation has said the entire project should cost about $21 billion.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission granted OPG a licence to construct the first of the four SMRs earlier this year and construction began in the spring.<\/p>\n<p>The province says that once all four SMRs are up and running, they will produce 1,200 megawatts of electricity, enough to power 1.2 million homes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a92025 The Canadian Press<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/canada.constructconnect.com\/dcn\/news\/resource\/2025\/10\/federal-ontario-governments-contributing-3b-to-small-nuclear-reactor-project\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">This article was originally posted at Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] BOWMANVILLE, ONT. \u2014 The federal and Ontario governments are putting a total of $3 billion toward a project to &#8230; <a title=\"Federal, Ontario governments contributing $3B to small nuclear reactor project\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/federal-ontario-governments-contributing-3b-to-small-nuclear-reactor-project\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Federal, Ontario governments contributing $3B to small nuclear reactor project\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1037],"tags":[357,295],"class_list":["post-32900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-commercial-news","tag-blog","tag-technology","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}