Dr. Chris Keefer is one of the leading nuclear power generation advocates in Canada. He’s a Toronto physician with a keen interest in nuclear power. His podcast is known as Decouple Media.
Dr. Chris Keefer is a Toronto physician who has taken a keen interest in nuclear power generation, to the point now where he’s one of the leading advocates in this country for nuclear power generation. In October he spent a day with Pipeline Online taking part in one of our “energy literacy tours.” The photo you see in the bio at the top of the story was taken at the likely site of Saskatchewan’s first nuclear reactor development, should it go ahead.
As Saskatchewan is moving toward becoming a nuclear power generating province, it’s important to build up literacy within this province on the nuclear front. Dr. Keefer has a podcast known as Decouple Media, and Pipeline Online will be publishing its content from time to time.
In the first two published this weekend, Dr. Keefer and his guest, James Krellenstein, go over the Westinghouse AP1000 pressurized water reactor. That is really important for Saskatchewan, because when Premier Scott Moe talks about “1000 megawatt reactors”, he’s pretty much referring to the AP1000. As Saskatoon-based Cameco bought 49 per cent of Westinghouse in 2023, and Moe has joined the presidents of Cameco and Westinghouse Canada on stage at conferences in Saskatoon this year, this is the most likely design Saskatchewan would go with, should it go into “large nuclear,” after it forays into “Small modular reactors.”
Also, the US under the Donald Trump administration just ordered 10 of these reactors, for US$80 billion all in.
First up, the primer on AP1000s:
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