Saskatchewan\u2019s premier says his government is moving forward with a plan that could see the first of two large nuclear reactors up and running in 16 years.<\/p>\n
Scott Moe announced Tuesday that his government is looking at building two large reactors somewhere in the province’s northwest \u2014 and the first could be online in 2042.<\/p>\n
SaskPower, the province’s electrical utility, will evaluate potential locations and speak with people who live in those communities.<\/p>\n
“We are charting a path forward for one of the largest energy economic development opportunities in our province’s history,” Moe said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The premier said it\u2019s premature to estimate how much the reactors would cost. New builds in the United States have been pegged in the billions of dollars.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Moe also didn’t specify where the province would construct the reactors, but said that they could be somewhere along the North Saskatchewan River.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He said the province is open to accepting private sector financing and Indigenous equity partnerships for the projects.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The announcement comes as Saskatchewan looks to ensure its energy needs and others are met.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Moe said nuclear power will support new industrial projects and a growing population. Saskatchewan also hopes to export electricity to neighbouring provinces and the United States.<\/p>\n
Should the reactors be built, Moe said, they would supply 2,600 megawatts by 2050 \u2014 enough to power 2.6 million homes.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Saskatchewan has 1.2 million people and currently doesn’t use nuclear power. The province is the world’s second-largest uranium producer.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The province is also exploring whether to build a small modular nuclear reactor near Estevan, southeast of Regina.<\/p>\n
Moe said the government is looking at the Rafferty Dam as a possible site for the small reactor, though he didn’t rule out building a bigger one there.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Companies in the uranium and nuclear sector \u2014 including Cameco and AtkinsR\u00e9alis \u2014 said in statements they support the province’s plan.<\/p>\n
Moe said companies will compete by bidding to build the reactors.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Nuclear development has come up before in Saskatchewan.<\/p>\n
In 2008, Bruce Power proposed constructing a plant in west-central Saskatchewan. The project, facing public concern, did not proceed after former premier Brad Wall’s Saskatchewan Party government decided not to endorse it.<\/p>\n
Moe said Tuesday times have changed and that countries around the world are planning to build more nuclear plants.<\/p>\n
“When you attend nuclear global summits today, they are talking about the dry decade where we were not building nuclear power globally and we should have been,” he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“That is about to change.”\u00a0<\/p>\n
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 29, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Saskatchewan\u2019s premier says his government is moving forward with a plan that could see the first of two…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":914791,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,44],"class_list":["post-914790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914790","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=914790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/914791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=914790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=914790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=914790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}