PEO Mississauga Chapter, Women in Engineering and Innovation Committees, are very happy to invite Mr. Paul Acchione, retired “Manager – Engineering Services” OPG and past president of OSPE to give a talk on the new concepts of SMR and its advantages.

“SMRs are a new innovative technology spanning a range of reactor sizes from a few MW to a few hundred MW. The technology involves new coolant and fuel designs that have a number of characteristics that make them more suitable for lower cost clean civilian energy production. Some of the new designs are passively safe (walk-away safe), can be deployed closer to population centres to provide both electricity and heat, use fuel more effectively that produces up to 100x less radioactive waste that is up to 1000x less long-lasting. SMRs in combination with renewable energy sources should make decarbonization of our energy systems possible and affordable by mid-century.

Speaker bio:
Paul Acchione, M.Eng., P.Eng., FCAE, Member – Energy Task Force, Ontario Society of Professional Engineers
Paul has a B.A.Sc. and M.Eng. degree from the University of Toronto. Paul is a licensed professional engineer in Ontario and a fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering. Paul has over 47 years of engineering and management experience in the electricity sector and is a member of OSPE’s Energy Task Force. Paul was also the 2013-14 President and Chair of OSPE.

Speaker bio can be found here.

Presentation slides can be found here.

Date: 2019-12-05
Registration start time: 6:00 PM
Start time: 6:00 PM, end time: 8:30 PM

To register please visit the event link below.

Location:
Burnhamthorpe Community Centre
Applewood Hills -West room
1500 Gulleden Dr.
Organizers name: Pappur Shankar, P.Eng., FEC (p.shankar@rogers.com)
Cost: Free. Seats for 100 only (reserve early, please ensure you attend if you reserve, as others may be in waiting list.