Bruce Power has received permission from the Canadian nuclear regulator to restart unit 2 of the Bruce A nuclear power plant in Ontario, which has been idle for almost 20 years. However, the detection of a leak during start-up of the refurbished Candu reactor resulted in it being returned to a shut down state.
Bruce A's unit 1 can restart following refurbishment, Canadian nuclear regulators have ruled. The reactor has been out of service since 1997.
The long-awaited return to service of the refurbished unit 2 of the Bruce A nuclear power plant in Ontario, Canada, has been delayed due to damage in an electrical generator on the non-nuclear side of the plant.
More than 1300 steam generator tubes have now been plugged at Southern California Edison's San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) in California as the utility continues to investigate the cause of excessive wear in some of the tubes. It is not yet known when the two-unit plant will resume operation.
US utility Xcel Energy has reduced the size and delayed the schedule of a planned uprate at its Prairie Island nuclear power plant in Minnesota following a reassessment of the project's value to customers.
NB Power has received permission from the Canadian nuclear regulator to load fuel into the refurbished single-unit Point Lepreau plant in New Brunswick. The Candu reactor is expected to restart later this year, having been offline for over four years..jpg "SONGS-3 RSG delivery (MHI)")
A small number of steam generator tubes have failed pressure tests at unit 3 of Southern California Edison's San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) in California as the company investigates the cause of a leak in the recently installed components.
A joint venture between SNC-Lavalin and Aecon Industrial has been awarded a contract by Ontario Power Generation (OPG) for work towards refurbishment of Canada's Darlington nuclear power plant to enable a further 25-30 years of generation.