The government wants a next-generation Candu design ready by 2030 to support up to 10 new large nuclear plants in Canada and exports to four new customer countries by 2040, the Liberals’ new nuclear energy strategy says. The plan includes no new spending, but is meant to guide agencies like the Canada Infrastructure Bank and Canada Growth Fund in deciding what to support. (The Logic)

Talking point: The strategy includes Canadian microreactors, supply chains for other nuclear technologies (including small modular reactors and Canadian-owned Candu competitor Westinghouse’s large reactors) and fusion energy, but Candu technology is at the plan’s core. Candu reactors—accounting for all of Canada’s current nuclear energy—are attractive because they’re designed to run on unenriched uranium mined in Canada and produce useful isotopes as byproducts. Candu sales produce long-term international partnerships, the strategy says, and can be a foreign policy tool as well as an economic boon, so they’ll “be treated as a direct expression of foreign and industrial policy.”