Feds, province to spend $3B on mini nuclear power plant in Bowmanville, Ont.

Ontario and the federal government are spending a collective $3 billion to build Canada’s first small modular reactors, a new nuclear energy technology to be built next door to the Darlington power plant.

Premier Doug Ford called it “a down payment on Ontario’s nuclear future,” in a provincial release Thursday, which said the project will make Ontario’s economy more competitive, resilient and self-reliant in the face of U.S. tariffs.

“We’re protecting Ontario by supporting good-paying, longterm jobs for Ontario workers and building the energy infrastructure — including both SMRs [small modular reactors] and new, large-scale nuclear — needed to make Ontario an energy superpower,” Ford said in the release.

To help build the first of four SMRs at Darlington Nuclear Station, the province wi