Bruce Power
🇨🇦 Tiverton, CA · Active
Bruce Power is the licensed operator of the Bruce Nuclear Generating Station on Lake Huron in Ontario, Canada, a site it leases from Ontario Power Generation. It is a partnership owned mainly by the pension fund OMERS and TC Energy, each holding about 48%. The station has eight CANDU pressurised heavy-water reactors with a combined capacity of about 6,400 MW, and the company says it supplies over 30% of Ontario's electricity with more than 4,200 employees. Six of the units are being refurbished to extend their lives under a programme Ontario approved in 2015; the other two had already been refurbished by 2012. Its reactors also produce medical isotopes, including lutetium-177.
- Sector
- Fission
- Technology
- Pressurised heavy-water reactor
- Role
- Utility, Operator
Terms
- Pressurised heavy-water reactor
- Heavy water (deuterium oxide) kept under pressure as both coolant and moderator, which absorbs far fewer neutrons than ordinary water and so lets the reactor run on natural, unenriched uranium. That is the CANDU design's defining trade: heavy water is expensive to produce, but the fuel needs no enrichment plant. Fuel is natural or slightly enriched uranium oxide, usually in horizontal pressure tubes, refuelled online without shutting the reactor down.
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