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Bruce Nuclear Generating Station is a Canadian nuclear power station located in Tiverton, Ontario. The facility derives its name from Bruce County in which it is located. A nuclear power plant (NPP) is a thermal power station in which the heat source is one or more nuclear reactors. ...
Tiverton, Ontario is the site of the Bruce Nuclear Generating Station, one of the largest nuclear power facilities in the world. ...
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The facility was constructed in stages between 1970-1987 by the provincial Crown corporation, Ontario Hydro. In April 1999 Ontario Hydro was split into 5 component Crown corporations with Ontario Power Generation (OPG) taking over all electrical generating stations. In June 2000, OPG entered into a long term lease agreement with private sector consortium Bruce Power to take over operation of the Bruce station. In May 2001, Bruce Power began operations. 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday. ...
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The Bruce station is the largest nuclear facility in Canada in terms of output and also one of the largest nuclear facilities in the world, comprising 8 CANDU nuclear reactors located on the eastern shore of Lake Huron, having a total output of 6232 MW (capacity net) and 7276 MW (gross net) when all units are online. The CANDU reactor is a pressurized-heavy water, natural-uranium power reactor designed in the 1960s by a partnership between Atomic Energy of Canada Limited and the Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario as well as several private industry participants. ...
Core of a nuclear reactor A nuclear reactor is a device in which nuclear chain reactions are initiated, controlled, and sustained at a steady rate (as opposed to a nuclear explosion, where the chain reaction occurs in a split second). ...
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The reactors are as follows:
BRUCE A
- BRUCE A 1 (being refurbished)
- BRUCE A 2 (being refurbished)
- BRUCE A 3
- BRUCE A 4
BRUCE B - BRUCE B 5
- BRUCE B 6
- BRUCE B 7
- BRUCE B 8
In the autumn of 2005, Bruce Power and the Government of Ontario committed to return units 1 and 2 to service, in order to help meet increasing energy demand in the province of Ontario.[1]
Encompassed by the Bruce site is the shut-down Douglas Point reactor, an earlier version of the CANDU design. Douglas Point was the second CANDU PHWR built, after the successful Nuclear Power Demonstrator(NPD). ...
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