Small Modular Reactors

Canada’s OPG Completes Installation Of Reactor Basemat For First Darlington SMR

By Kamen Kraev
1 May 2026

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Canada’s OPG Completes Installation Of Reactor Basemat For First Darlington SMR
The precision lift, the equivalent of lifting more than three Airbus A380 airliners, was executed by one of the world’s largest crawler cranes. Courtesy OPG.
Ontario Power Generation (OPG) has completed installation of the reactor basemat for the first unit of the Darlington BWRX-300 small modular reactor (SMR) project in Canada.

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