Nuclear power plant in Saskatchewan, Canada. Approximate location 54.3075888, -105.9937511.
NuclearSaskatchewanCanadaeVincimicroreactorAnnounced
Saskatchewan Research Council nuclear power plant is a 5 MW nuclear power plant in Saskatchewan, Canada. It is operated by Saskatchewan Research Council. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 11k homes (estimated). It ranks #980 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_saskatchewanresearch_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, Saskatchewan Research Council 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 Saskatchewan Research Council.
This nuclear plant uses heat from nuclear fission to raise steam for a turbine-generator. It sits in a subarctic (boreal) climate (Köppen Dfc) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 54.3°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).
The #15 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 54.3075888, -105.9937511 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Saskatchewan Research Council nuclear power plant is a 5 MW nuclear power plant in Saskatchewan, Canada, Announced 2029.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 11,262 homes (estimated).
Saskatchewan Research Council nuclear power plant is operated by Saskatchewan Research Council.
