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Unit 6 at Canada’s Bruce Power NPP has been reconnected to Ontario’s electricity grid following completion of its Major Component Replacement (MCR) outage, which began in January 2020. Bruce Power said the work was completed ahead of schedule and on budget despite the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. It is the first unit to be returned to service as part of Bruce Power’s Life-Extension Program, which will see Units 3-8 refurbished over the next decade, extending their operation period to 2064 and beyond.

Source: NEI Magazine
Date: Wednesday, 13 September 2023
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsbruce-powers-unit-6-reconnected-to-ontarios-electricity-grid-11139824

Life extension work began in 2016 and remains ‘on track’

Source: Nucnet
Date: Thursday, 10 August 2023
Original article: nucnet.org/news/bruce-6-achieves-criticality-as-it-nears-return-to-service-after-major-refurbishment-8-3-2023

Unit 6 of the Bruce nuclear power plant in Ontario has resumed operation following its Major Component Replacement (MCR) project, Bruce Power announced. The Candu reactor, which was taken offline for the work in January 2020, is scheduled to resume commercial operation later this year.

Source: World Nuclear News
Date: Thursday, 10 August 2023
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Bruce-6-restarted-following-refurbishment

Bruce Power says it has achieved a major milestone of "substantial completion" of the construction phase of Major Component Replacement (MCR) portion of refurbishment of unit 6 at the Bruce nuclear plant. Refuelling will now begin with the aim of returning the plant to service later this year.

Source: NEI Magazine
Date: Wednesday, 10 May 2023
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsmajor-milestone-for-bruce-powers-mcr-project-10831695

Construction phase ‘substantially complete’, says operator

Source: Nucnet
Date: Wednesday, 10 May 2023
Original article: nucnet.org/news/refuelling-to-begin-as-bruce-6-nears-return-to-service-after-cad1-9-billion-refurbishment-5-2-2023

Bruce Power has reached the major milestone of "substantial completion" of the construction phase of Major Component Replacement portion of refurbishment of Bruce unit 6 and will now begin refuelling work as the focus moves on to returning the plant to service later this year.

Source: World Nuclear News
Date: Tuesday, 09 May 2023
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Fuelling-to-begin-as-first-refurbished-Bruce-unit

10-year project could add more than 30 years to operating life All four nuclear power plants at the Darlington site are undergoing mid-life refurbishment. Courtesy OPG. Canada’s nuclear regulator has given Ontario Power Generation (OPG) approval to load fuel into Darlington-3 reactor core following a major CAD12.8bn (USD9.5bn) refurbishment of all four pants at the Ontario facility.

Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) executive vice-president and chief regulatory operations officer Ramzi Jammal said in a 28 November 2022 letter to OPG that the company had met the conditions for the removal of the hold-point and “fuel may now be loaded into the Unit 3 core”.

Hold points are mandatory checkpoints where CNSC approval is required before the licensee – in this case OPG – is allowed to move on to the next stage of the process to return the unit to operation.

OPG said it will now load 6,240 fuel bundles into the Candu 850 reactor core.

In February 2022, OPG said work had begun on the refurbishment of Unit 1 – the third of four nuclear reactors at the site to undergo mid-life refurbishment.

Source: Nucnet
Date: Wednesday, 07 December 2022
Original article: nucnet.org/news/opg-to-begin-fuel-loading-after-completion-of-darlington-3-refurbishment-12-2-2022

The refurbishment of the four CANDU reactors at the Darlington nuclear power plant in Canada has now passed the midway point with work beginning at unit 1, Ontario Power Generation (OPG) announced. Unit 2 returned to service in June 2020 following its refurbishment, while work on unit 3 began in September 2020.

Source: World Nuclear News
Date: Thursday, 17 February 2022
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Refurbishment-of-third-Darlington-reactor-starts

Enough cobalt-60 to sterilise 10 billion items of medical equipment was recently shipped from unit 7 at Canada's Bruce nuclear power plant. Meanwhile, a new production base for medical radioisotopes is being set up at the Qinshan Phase III nuclear power plant in China.

Source: World Nuclear News
Date: Tuesday, 11 January 2022
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Bruce-Power-harvests-cobalt-60-for-medical-sterili

Work is part of CAD12.8bn project at Ontario nuclear station A reactor vault equipment airlock at the Darlington nuclear power station. Courtesy OPG. The Darlington-3 reactor and its systems have been “separated” from the three remaining operating units at the Canadian nuclear station as work continues on the refurbishment project.

Ontario Power Generation said workers installed the last bulkhead section to complete a physical protective barrier 10 days ahead of the originally planned 44-day schedule. The installation of the bulkhead, which involved welding together 16 steel panels each weighing more than 5,000 kg, is part of “islanding” – or physically isolating – Unit 3 to create a safe and defined work area for refurbishment and protect workers and the plant.

Unit 3 is the second of four Candu units at the site to undergo refurbishment in a 10-year project that will enable the station to continue operations until 2055.

Source: Nucnet
Date: Saturday, 23 January 2021
Original article: nucnet.org/news/unit-3-reactor-separated-from-other-units-1-5-2021

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