{"id":754686,"date":"2026-06-23T00:17:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T00:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/754686\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T00:17:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T00:17:15","slug":"canada-looks-to-build-up-to-10-new-nuclear-reactors-by-2040","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/754686\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada looks to build up to 10 new nuclear reactors by 2040"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The federal government is looking to build up to 10 new nuclear reactors over the next 15 years, with at least one of them outside of Ontario.<\/p>\n<p>Energy Minister Tim Hodgson is today announcing a new federal nuclear strategy which officials say could cost more than $100 billion.<\/p>\n<p>The strategy does not say how Canada would fund the strategy, which comes as the government works to more than double the amount of electricity produced by 2050.<\/p>\n<p>The plan also looks to expand Candu reactor sales to new countries make Canada a key player in enriched uranium exports as Western countries turn away from Russia.<\/p>\n<p>The document says Prime Minister Mark Carney was not shown the strategy and had no role in developing it due to the ethics screen he has in place.<\/p>\n<p>Brookfield co-owns a reactor Candu competes with and Carney had options and deferred shares in both the Brookfield Corporation and Brookfield Asset Management that were put into a blind trust after he became prime minister.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tKeep it Factual<\/p>\n<p>Add CityNews Vancouver as a trusted source on Google to see more local stories from us.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=vancouver.citynews.ca\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"add-trusted-source-badge\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1778189171_473_google-trusted-badge.png\" alt=\"Add as a preferred source on Google\" width=\"198\" height=\"63\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The federal government is looking to build up to 10 new nuclear reactors over the next 15 years,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":754687,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,66],"class_list":["post-754686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=754686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/754687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=754686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=754686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=754686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}