- A councillor for the City of Quinte West made an interesting announcement at Thursday’s meeting of the Quinte Economic Development Commission.
David O’Neil said local politicians had been chatting with the Vice-President of Marketing and Business Development of Candu Energy Todd Smith about locating a small nuclear reactor on the dormant former Cascades/Domtar property in Trenton.
Smith was the former Member of Provincial Parliament for Bay of Quinte riding.
O’Neil told the commission he’d heard the talks so far were “positive.”
Bay of Quinte MPP Tyler Allsopp said he hadn’t been involved in talks on the subject but thought it was an “interesting idea” worthy of consideration.
Quinte News has reached out to Smith for comment.
It was recently announced that four small modular reactors would be built at Darlington at an estimated cost of $21 billion.
The SMRs at Darlington could power around 1.2 million homes.
