Bruce Power and BWXT Canada are collaborating on several projects to advance Ontario’s post-Covid-19 economic recovery programme, including an estimated CAD55m (USD41m, €34m) contract for BWXT to perform fuel channel maintenance on Bruce Power’s Unit 3 nuclear reactor.
The Bruce-3 life extension project is scheduled to be carried out in 2021. Once complete, it will extend the life of Unit 3 to 2023, when Bruce Power is scheduled to start the unit’s major component replacement project. For BWXT, a key supplier in the nuclear energy industry of critical components, fuel, services and medical isotopes, the Bruce-3 life extension project is the fourth major project of its kind to have been carried out by the company in the past 12 years.
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