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by fsuts 7 hours ago
I’m not Canadian so news to me that Canada has built nuclear plants around the world.

As in the UK we were previously asking a French-Chinese partnership to build here so not sure why Canada didn’t get chosen for that.

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>As in the UK we were previously asking a French-Chinese partnership to build here so not sure why Canada didn’t get chosen for that.

Its crazy how fast britain has fallen off nuclear, the original british nuclear rollout should have stood the UK up as a permanent nuclear energy powerhouse but France took it from them.

So France and Canada both build nuclear plants. Must be something in the french language that makes folks just want to do the cool stuff.

If it is anything like all my french cookware, it will be done wonderfully.

This analysis is missing that Quebec doesn't have any nuclear plants. (Although NB has one, which counts for half?)
AtkinsRéalis (fka SNC-Lavalin) does build nuclear reactors and is headquartered in Montreal[0].

[0] https://www.atkinsrealis.com/en/markets-and-services/markets...

They bought CANDU reactor designs from the government
Quebec's geography is so favorable for hydropower that they don't need nuclear, or any other source of electricity.
Quebec has one they shut it down, hydro Quebec is a hydro power company not a nuclear power company
Well there goes that theory.
The French are undoubtedly a good choice considering nuclear produces the majority of their electricity and EDF already operates in the UK.