Bruce Nuclear Generating Station

Bruce Nuclear Generating Station is the full name of a nuclear power plant located in Canada, specifically on Lake Huron, Ontario. The facility currently operates a total of eight reactors, which for a long time was the highest number at a single site in the world. It wasn’t until 2016 that the plant lost its primacy when it was overtaken at least in terms of nominal capacity by South Korea’s Kori power plant.

The power plant was built between 1977 and 1987 and currently employs 4,000 workers. The eight local reactors are actually divided into two separate power plants, marked A and B. Water from the local lake is naturally used for cooling in the secondary circuit.

technical parameters Bruce Nuclear Generating Station

Name	Bruce Nuclear Generating Station
Location	Kincardine, Bruce County, Ontario
Construction began	Unit 1: 1 June 1971 Unit 2: 1 December 1970 Unit 3: 1 July 1972 Unit 4: 1 September 1972 Unit 5: 1 June 1978 Unit 6: 1 January 1978 Unit 7: 1 May 1979 Unit 8: 1 August 1979
Commission date	Unit 1: 1 September 1977 Unit 2: 1 September 1977 Unit 3: 1 February 1978 Unit 4: 18 January 1979 Unit 5: 1 March 1985 Unit 6: 14 September 1984 Unit 7: 10 April 1986 Unit 8: 22 May 1987
Owner	Ontario Power Generation (OPG)
Operator	Bruce Power
Reactor type	CANDU PHWR
Reactors	8
Reactor supplier	AECL
Thermal capacity	4× 2832 MW (A 1–4) 4 × 2832 MW (B 5–8)
Cooling source	Lake Huron
Make and model (Power generation)	CANDU 791 (A 1–2) CANDU 750A (A 3–4) CANDU 750B (B 5–8)
Units operational (Power generation)	1 × 823 MWe (NET A1) 1 × 823 MWe (NET A2) 1 × 816 MWe (NET A3) 1 × 806 MWe (NET A4) 2 × 817 MWe (NET B6,8) 1 × 822 MWe (NET B5) 1 × 825 MWe (NET B7)
Nameplate capacity	6,550MW
Annual net output	48,169 GW·h