Nuclear power plant in Quebec, Canada. Approximate location 45.559545, -73.6068236.
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Prodigy nuclear power plant is a 5 MW nuclear power plant in Quebec, Canada. It is operated by Prodigy Clean Energy; Des Nëdhé Group. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 11k homes (estimated). It ranks #979 of 1,211 Canada power plants by installed capacity. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, nuclear supplies about 13.1% of Canada's electricity; the national grid averages 191 gCO₂/kWh (77.0% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id GEM_nuc_prodigy_canad.
Known, modelled and calculated values are kept separate. Missing fields are shown as unavailable.
The capacity and fuel fields on this page are source-record values from the upstream open dataset. They are useful for identification and ranking, but they have not been upgraded to a 2026 registry/GEM-location verified value.
capacity: GEM GNPT; fuel: GEM GNPT
At 5 MW, Prodigy nuclear power plant is below the median nuclear plant in Canada (941 MW). Technically it is described as microreactor. Its current lifecycle status is “Announced” — so it is not yet, or no longer, generating at full output. Nuclear plants split uranium to raise steam with no direct CO₂; they run as steady baseload with very high capacity factors and the longest operating lifetimes of any thermal plant.
Capacity comparison computed from the WRI Global Power Plant Database; fuel-type context is general engineering background.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Prodigy Clean Energy; Des Nëdhé Group.
This nuclear plant uses heat from nuclear fission to raise steam for a turbine-generator. It sits in a warm-summer humid continental climate (Köppen Dfb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 45.6°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.
Climate zone & typical temperatures: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid).
For a plant’s outdoor hardware — heat-recovery steam generators (HRSG), expansion joints, valves, flanges and their insulation — the local climate sets how fast unprotected steel and coatings degrade. This site sits in a mild atmospheric environment (estimated ISO 9223 class C2 — Low), with thermal cycling the leading environmental stress.
Higher environmental severity is exactly where protective removable insulation pays back most: a sheltered micro-climate slows corrosion, UV and thermal-cycling damage and extends outdoor hardware service life. This is an indicative site-climate context — not a condition assessment of any specific plant or operator.
Indicative estimate via the ISO 9223:2012 informative method (atmospheric corrosivity from temperature, time-of-wetness and airborne salinity), using WorldClim climate normals, the Köppen-Geiger class and coast distance. Indicative, not a measured corrosion rate.
The #14 largest nuclear power plant of 15 in Canada by capacity.
Canada has 15 nuclear power plants in this dataset, together about 20,406 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 45.559545, -73.6068236 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Prodigy nuclear power plant is a 5 MW nuclear power plant in Quebec, Canada.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 11,262 homes (estimated).
Prodigy nuclear power plant is operated by Prodigy Clean Energy; Des Nëdhé Group.
