Business View Magazine | September 2022

35 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 9, ISSUE 9 SMRs to illustrate some of those collusions: “On the small end of SMRs – micro-reactors – we think they’d be great for remote communities that are reliant on diesel generation to provide power. They’re not connected to grids. Micro- reactors would allow for a couple of things to happen. Firstly, if you’re a remote community and you’re constrained on the amount of electricity you can use because of what you have installed as a diesel generator, once you put in a nuclear reactor, that constraint almost disappears entirely. Secondly, the biggest cost in diesel generation is bringing the fuel up to that remote location – trucking it in on ice roads, or flying it in. SMRs are built so that you can have 20-, 30-, even 40-year cycles of fuel, and they don’t need to be refueled. This begs the question, What else could a community do if they had more power?” “Could they solve some of their drinking water issues by running a desalination plant?” Jolly speculates. “Expand some of their agriculture by building greenhouses? Deliver district heating by running steam to the community? Encourage self-reliance by building some local industry? When power isn’t a concern, it opens up a lot of other possibilities.” HATCH LTD . Integrating People, Performance, and Technology TM HSI® is a world leader in Human System Integration, Human Factors Engineering, and Human Performance. 111 Farquhar Street, Guelph, Ontario, Canada, N1H 3N4 519-836-5911 www.humansys.com RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT SUPPLY CHAIN / ACQUISITION PROJECT ENGINEERING TRAINING MANAGEMENT HEALTH & SAFETY PRODUCT DESIGN We provide consulting expertise in: