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Bruce Power receives approval to power up Unit 2 at Bruce Nuclear site |
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The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission has given Bruce Power the go-ahead to power up the Unit 2 reactor at the Bruce A generating station. Friday's permission to remove reactor shutdown guarantees from Unit 2, which has been shut down for nearly 20 years, means it is now a live reactor and Bruce Power can complete final safety checks in preparation for synchronization to Ontario’s electricity grid. “The regulator’s approval clears the way for our staff to take the reactor to power operation and complete the remaining commissioning and start-up tests on the unit,” said Duncan Hawthorne, president and chief executive officer. “Operations staff will complete a number of tests that will clear the way for Unit 2 to deliver low-cost, clean, reliable power to the provincial grid.” Innovation has been a key theme of the refurbishment program on Unit 2 at the Bruce Nuclear site, with many complex maneuvers being completed, when previously they were thought to be impossible. “A project of this magnitude has never been done before on a CANDU reactor and that cannot be overlooked,” Hawthorne said. “We have learned many lessons from our work on Unit 2 and have implemented them on Unit 1, which is following very closely behind Unit 2 and should achieve a similar milestone in a few short months.”
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next step will be to synchronize Unit 2 to
the Ontario electricity grid. The 750-megawatt unit will produce
enough electricity to power approximately 500,000 homes, roughly a
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