Bruce Power Refurbishment

As part of the Life-Extension Program, Bruce Power is carrying out its intensive Major Component Replacement (MCR) Project. The MCR Project began in January 2020 and focuses on the replacement of key reactor components in Units 3-8, including steam generators, pressure tubes, calandria tubes and feeder tubes.

Bruce Power is located in southwestern Ontario near Tiverton, on the shores of Lake Huron in Bruce County. It is Ontario’s only private sector nuclear generating station and produces approximately 30% of the province’s electricity. Including 8 reactors, Bruce NGS boasts the largest number of operational reactors at any nuclear generating station in the world.

Units 1 and 2 were previously refurbished between 1995 and 2012. Refurbishment of units 3 through 8 is slated to take place between 2020 and 2033.

https://www.brucepower.com/life-extension-program-mcr-project/

Darlington Refurbishment

Ontario Power Generation is a Crown corporation wholly owned by the government of Ontario. OPG is responsible for approximately half of the electricity generation in the province. It owns varied forms of generation facilities including hydroelectric, wind, biomass, gas and two nuclear power plants. OPG’s nuclear power plants are Pickering Nuclear Generating Station, located just east of Toronto in Pickering and the Darlington Nuclear Generating Station, located further east in Courtice, Ontario. Both OPG’s nuclear power stations operate on the shores of Lake Ontario. Bruce, Pickering and Darlington Generating Stations are regulated federally by the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission, which grants licenses that allow each station to operate.

Located in Southern Ontario in the township of Clarington, on the shores of Lake Ontario, Darlington NGS is the 2nd largest Nuclear Generating station in Canada, producing approximately 20% of the province’s electricity. Consisting of 4 Units commissioned between 1990 and 1993, Darlington is owned and Operated by Ontario Power Generation, an Ontario Crown Corporation.

Refurbishment of Darlingon Unit 2 began in 2016, with the three other units slated to undergo refurbishment between 2020 and 2026.

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