Life-Extension & MCR

Bruce Power’s Unit 6 was declared commercially operational today, 39 years to the day of its first in-service date of Sept. 14, 1984. The renewed unit met all operational and contractual obligations of the company’s agreement with the Independent Electricity … Read more

Bruce Power’s Unit 6 has been renewed and was connected to Ontario’s electricity grid today following its successful Major Component Replacement (MCR) outage to provide clean, reliable power to the province’s people, hospitals and businesses for decades to come. The … Read more

Bruce Power’s Unit 6 Major Component Replacement (MCR) Project reached a historic milestone over the weekend when the unit achieved a sustained fission chain reaction which creates the heat needed to produce electricity, known in the nuclear industry as ‘first … Read more

Bruce Power successfully completed loading fuel into the Unit 6 reactor, keeping the Major Component Replacement (MCR) Project on track to resume the production of clean, reliable energy and cancer-fighting medical isotopes later this year. Operations and Maintenance crews loaded … Read more

Bruce Power has made a major investment in powering Ontario’s economy and climate change goals forward, awarding a $1.3-billion contract to Shoreline Power Group for Fuel Channel and Feeder Replacement (FCFR) for its remaining Major Component Replacement (MCR) projects in … Read more

Bruce Power has commenced loading fuel into Unit 6 and is on track to resume the production of clean, reliable energy and cancer-fighting medical isotopes for decades to come at the conclusion of the unit’s Major Component Replacement (MCR) outage … Read more

With the monumental construction phase of the Major Component Replacement portion of its Unit 6 refurbishment now substantially complete, Bruce Power is turning its attention to the process of returning the unit to service. Unit 6, which provides enough electricity … Read more

Bruce Power and Cambridge-based ATS Corporation’s (ATS) Industrial Automation business are collaborating on new automated tooling for inspection and installation work to reduce schedule, improve safety and quality, reduce human error, and improve overall performance of Bruce Power’s Unit 3 … Read more

Crews at Bruce Power have completed the Unit 3 defueling milestone 16 days ahead of schedule. The 27-day defuel program, which saw 5,748 fuel bundles removed from Unit 3’s reactor core, was completed 31 days faster than the same program on … Read more

Bruce Power’s Unit 3 was removed from service March 1 to begin its Major Component Replacement (MCR) outage. The refurbished unit is scheduled to come back online in 2026 and will provide clean, reliable power for the people of Ontario … Read more