Darlington Nuclear Generating Station

How are we going to make sure that we're building a strong electrical grid? We've committed to doubling it.

When you look at our major projects, like what we're doing with Atlantic Offshore Wind, when you're looking at Callaway Hydro, um, when we're looking at the Northwest Corridor where there are shovels in the ground or Darlington Nuclear or Tolston Hydro-

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... or the interties to connect provinces, that's the side where we're building out our electrical grid.

And for her story, we're travelling over to Ontario in Canada.

It was October 27th, 2006 when a man was out near the Darlington nuclear plant in Bowmanville, Ontario.

He was just out looking for dogwood plants and he was searching this marshy bog near the entrance when he came across a few scattered human bones.

There was a skull, a femur and just some other random bones.

So they've announced that the workforce development strategy includes a 200,000 square foot training and mock-up facility designed to train over 2,800 skilled trades workers ahead of the reactor dismantling.

So officials noted that the project builds on the success of OPG's Darlington refurbishment, which was completed five months ahead of schedule and $150 million under budget.

So beyond power generation, the refurbished station will secure a long-term supply of cobalt-60, which is a critical medical isotope used globally for various cancer treatments and medical sterilization.

We actually had some of the OPG team, some of the Darlington team, at our Site Summit event months ago, and they talked about how they've built full-scale replicas and used robotics and all sorts of different things to achieve some of these massive savings and massive time savings.

So it'll be interesting to see, can they do it again? Well, that's it for the Digging In podcast this week.

Thank you so much for joining us.

You look at the Port of Montreal, the Contrecure project, 8,000 construction jobs.

You look at Ontario, Darlington SMR nuclear project, 18,000 good paying construction jobs.

Right here in Alberta, Minister Hodgson, my colleague, just announced one of the largest carbon capture projects, hundreds of jobs here on the ground in Alberta.

And so this is what it's all about.