Ottawa is investing 50.5 million dollars in Moltex Energy Canada Inc to help the company develop a “Stable Salt Reactor Wasteburner.” The unit will produce emissions free energy through recycling existing used nuclear fuel to produce emissions free energy. The technology is designed to reduce storage needs for used nuclear fuel – a technology that could be a first of its kind “world class non-emitting energy system.”
As part of the federal investment – Moltex has committed to creating and maintaining 48 full time jobs.
LeBlanc also announced 4.9 million dollar to help NB Power prepare the site at the Point Lepreau nuclear power plant for small modular reactor demonstration – and – almost 562 thousand dollars to help the University of New Brunswick’s Centre for Nuclear Energy Research expand capacity to support S-M-R technology in the province.
