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Canada: Enabling Small Modular Reactors Program (Natural Resources Canada)

Natural Resources Canada's Enabling Small Modular Reactors Program gives non-repayable contributions of up to $5 million (up to 75% of costs) for research on SMR waste management and SMR manufacturing and fuel supply chains, excluding reactor demonstration and commercial installation. Applications closed on 21 April 2023; project funding runs to 31 March 2027.

Category
Funding and support programmes
Status
In effect
Instrument
funding programme · Natural Resources Canada, Enabling Small Modular Reactors Program (programme page, modified 2024-12-20)
Issued by
Natural Resources Canada
Jurisdiction
Canada
Affects
Project funding
Effective date
Not recorded
Expiry or completion
2027-03-31 — The programme page says funding is available for projects until 31 March 2027. That date has not passed.
Operative text
Natural Resources Canada: Enabling Small Modular Reactors Program (Programme page, date modified 2024-12-20)
Record reviewed · next review
2026-10-18 · 2027-04-18 (dates our review of this record; not a statement of the measure's present legal effect)

Legal and geographic scope

Federal programme of non-repayable contributions for research and development projects on radioactive waste management for SMRs and on SMR manufacturing and fuel supply chains. Projects may request up to $5,000,000, with the programme providing up to 75% of total project costs (up to 100% for projects led by Indigenous applicants with 51% or more Indigenous ownership); applicants must be legal entities registered or incorporated in Canada. Projects should exclude reactor research, development and demonstration, including commercial installation. The application period closed on 21 April 2023 and funding is available for projects until 31 March 2027. The programme does not fund, license or site any reactor.

Not approved or still pending

The programme's total budget and opening date are not stated on the page read. The funded-projects page lists research contributions to organizations such as the Nuclear Waste Management Organization and Prodigy Clean Energy; none is recorded here as an award, and none is reactor construction funding or a link to any SMRMap project. Canada Infrastructure Bank and other federal financing were not reviewed.

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