Unit 3 at Bruce Power’s eight-unit nuclear power station has been removed from service to begin its major component replacement outage as part of an ambitious life extension programme for six reactors at the Ontario site.
Bruce Power said the refurbished unit is scheduled to come back online in 2026.
The major component replacement project will see Units 3 to 8 refurbished, allowing the eight-unit site to continue to contribute to Ontario’s and Canada’s clean-energy goals and produce cancer-fighting medical isotopes until 2064.
The eight pressurised heavy-water Candu reactor units at the Bruce site began commercial operation between September 1977 and May 1987.
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