In the week of December 9, several of the StarCore Nuclear team were in Manitoba to continue discussions with several parties who are participants in Project Whiteshell. Project Whiteshell is a 9.6 MWe HTGR which is intended to demonstrate StarCore’s offering for off-grid sites in Canada.
Project Whiteshell will closely follow the NGNP design developed at INL in the late 1990’s and will incorporate the lessons learnt at sites who ran similar HTGR reactors, such as the ones at Fort St Vrain and Peach Bottom.
During last week the StarCore team held meetings with the Manitoba Provincial Government, Manitoba Hydro, The Mayor of Pinawa LGD, Blair Skinner, Southern Chiefs Organisation, the Brokenhead Ojibway Nation and other first nations groups. David Dabney – CEO, Leo Eskin – Director of Engineering and Joe Wiendl – Director of Corporate Strategy made good progress for StarCore and Project Whiteshell.
StarCore is expecting to commence licensing early in 2025 and work will include: discussions with CNL for siting of the demonstration plant at Whiteshell, initiating the Vendor Design Review with CNSC, engagement with contractors on various scopes of work, preparing the 19 focus areas for the VDR and early engagement for critical materials to meet schedule requirements.
