The great potential for small modular reactors has to do with how scalable the reactors are. They can be so small as to fit on the back of a truck and be delivered to a northern community, a first nations community, or they can be large, and they're providing electricity.
Their uses in Canada, if I could put it succinctly, really focus on their scalability being applied to smaller markets. Even Saskatchewan, for example, which needs to phase out coal, couldn't take a whole conventional reactor on their electricity grid. Very small modular reactors could be provided to northern indigenous communities to get them off diesel power.
Lastly, these small modular reactors produce very high-temperature heat, and this heat can be used to replace industrial heat in the production of steel and cement. It can be used in mining operations in the way that we extract and process oil and gas, in a way that electricity just can't do by itself.
The ability of small modular reactors to decarbonize heavy industry in Canada with high- temperature heat in a very scalable way is what is addressing Canada's central challenge. We have a clean electricity grid. We have a problem trying to decarbonize heavy industry. Small modular reactors can help.