Bruce A Unit 1 has been removed from service for a $58 million planned maintenance outage.
Bruce Power removed the unit on January 30th, after 99 consecutive days of supplying electricity.
Unit 1 was returned ot service back in 2012 after being shut down by the former Ontario Hydro in the 1990's.
Executive Vice President and Chief Nuclear Officer Len Clewett says staff has safely performed an immense amount of fine tuning since the restart.
He says, "The people of Ontario are reaping the rewards of our employees’commitment to safely and reliably operating Bruce A.”
The station also set a post-1981 long-run record of 91 consecutive days of four-unit operation, before Unit 3 was removed from service for a short-duration, planned maintenance outage. The 91-day long run also tripled a post-Restart record of 28 days of four-unit operation. “With this long-run record, we continue to prove to the people of Ontario that refurbishment of nuclear reactors can be successful and is an excellent investment in low-cost, clean energy that will produce safely for decades,” Clewett said.
