Canada has an extensive nuclear cluster and supply chain • Canada’s nuclear cluster already extends beyond the ELLESMERE ISLAND operation of reactors. As shown on the map, Canada has an extensive uranium industry. It is the second-largest Uranium Mining & Milling Uranium Processing – Refining, Conversion, and Fuel uranium producer in the world (as of 2019), with 13% of Fabrication the world’s uranium mined and milled in northern Nuclear Power Generation and Nuclear Science & Technology Waste Management & Long-term Management Saskatchewan. As well as supplying domestic reactors, Shut down or Decommissioned Sites this industry is a major export success, with 75% of Inactive or Decommissioned Uranium Mines and Tailing Sites Canada's uranium exported, with the US being the largest VICTORIA ISLAND customer. Iqaluit • Canada also possesses research excellence. For 75 Port Radium YUKON NUNAVUT years, Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL) has been at Rayrock Whitehorse NORTHWEST TERRITORY the forefront of innovation in nuclear medicine, Yellowknife radiopharmaceuticals, and low dose radiation research. NEWFOUNDLAND Beaverlodge CNL’s largest facility is at Chalk River Laboratories, on Gunnar, Lorado AND LABRADOR LABRADOR St. John's McClean Lake the border of Ontario and Quebec, and it has Cluff Lake Rabbit Lake NEWFOUNDLAND Cigar Lake McArthur River* approximately 50 other sites across Canada. Key Lake Mine is in care and maintenance (standby) BRITISH ALBERTA MANITOBA COLUMBIA • The current cluster is estimated to support 76,000 jobs PRINCE QUÉBEC Edmonton SASKATCHEWAN EDWARD ISLAND across Canada. University of ONTARIO Saskatchewan Fredericton General Fusion NOVA Québec • Nuclear energy significantly benefits local communities. Saskatchewan Regina SCOTIA Gentiilly-1 & 2 Research Council NEW Halifax Victoria TRIUMF For instance, in the tri-county region encompassing Winnipeg BRUNSWICK Point Lepreau Rophton NPD Whiteshell OTTAWA Laboratories Elliot Lake Area Bruce, Grey, and Huron counties, the number of suppliers Chalk River Laboratories Lake Agnew Lake Deloro Ontario serving the nuclear energy sector rose from 13 in 2016 to Toronto Port Hope, Port Granby Western Waste Darington Management Facility 60 in 2022, spreading across 15 communities within the Pickering Dougles Point region. Sources: Westinghouse, NRCan, World Nuclear Association, Canadian Nuclear Association, MZConsulting Inc PwC | The Economic Impact of a Westinghouse AP1000 Reactor Project in Canada 21