Ontario Power Generation has signed a partnership agreement with the city of Port Hope focused on bringing “large-scale new nuclear generation” to the utility’s Wesleyville location, a 1,300-acre site on the shores of Lake Ontario that has been left undeveloped for four decades. The Ontario government believes that this site has the potential to generate as much as 10 GW of electricity and become “the world’s largest nuclear station,” in the words of Stephen Lecce, the province’s minister of energy and mines.

A 1,300-acre site left undeveloped on the shores of Lake Ontario four decades ago could see new life as the home to a large nuclear facility.

Several companies involved in the front end of the nuclear fuel cycle have recently resumed production after announcing temporary shutdowns or staffing reductions during the initial response to the COVID-19 pandemic.