Ontario Premier Doug Ford, Ontario Power CEO Nicolle Butcher and Prime Minister Mark Carney at the Darlington energy complex in Courtice, Ont., on Thursday. Both governments are pledging funding for a new reactor project at the facility.

The federal government will provide an additional $2-billion toward construction of the first nuclear reactor planned in Canada in more than three decades, Prime Minister Mark Carney announced Thursday.

Inside the refurbished Darlington nuclear generating station in 2023.

The Canada Growth Fund, a $15-billion federal investment fund, will buy an equity stake in the project. Half of the $2-billion will be spent on the plant’s first reactor; the other half is earmarked for subsequent reactors planned at the site. Terms of the investment were not disclos

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