Point Lepreau nuclear power plant

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Point Lepreau nuclear power plant
The Point Lepreau nuclear power plant (left) with the power lines going out from it
The Point Lepreau nuclear power plant (left) with the power lines going out from it
location
Point Lepreau Nuclear Power Plant, New Brunswick
Point Lepreau nuclear power plant
Coordinates 45 ° 4 ′ 10 ″  N , 66 ° 27 ′ 20 ″  W Coordinates: 45 ° 4 ′ 10 ″  N , 66 ° 27 ′ 20 ″  W
Country: Canada
Data
Owner: NB Power
Operator: NB Power
Project start: May 1st, 1975
Commercial operation: February 1, 1983

Active reactors (gross):

1 (705 MW)
Energy fed in in 2013: 4,111 GWh
Energy fed in since commissioning: 119,470 GWh
Was standing: 29th September 2014
The data source of the respective entries can be found in the documentation .
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The Point Lepreau nuclear power plant in the west of the city of Saint John , New Brunswick was built between 1975 and 1983 by NB Power on the north coast of the Bay of Fundy by the energy provider of the Canadian state of New Brunswick .

Point Lepreau is the only nuclear power plant in Canada's Atlantic provinces. With a CANDU reactor , the power plant has an output power of 660  MW . The reactor was designed for an operating time of 25 years. Since this ended in 2008, it had to be renovated. For this 1.4 billion CAD were estimated. The estimated cost was exceeded by CAD 2 billion. In 2012, the operating license for the reactor was extended by five years to 2017.

A disgruntled employee of the nuclear power plant put heavy water of the cooling circuit in a drinking water dispenser in 1990 . Eight employees drank the contaminated water. The perpetrator was discovered when increased levels of tritium were found in the urine of the employees. Further accidents, connected with the escape of heavy water or the toxic substance hydrazine, occurred between 2011 and 2013.

Since the cancellation on December 28, 2012 cut-off of the same year as Point Lepreau reactor went into operation Gentilly-2 in the province of Quebec 's Point Lepreau both the smallest nuclear power plant in Canada and the only remaining active reactor in Canada that is outside the province of Ontario is .

See also

Web links

Commons : Point Lepreau nuclear power plant  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b IAEO: PRIS - Country Statistics / Canada , accessed on July 3, 2014.
  2. ↑ WNA: Nuclear Power in Canada , accessed on August 2, 2014.
  3. ^ Nuklearforum.ch: Canada: Point Lepreau on the network for another five years from February 22, 2012
  4. ↑ nl.newsbank.com: Philadelphia Daily News (PA) - March 6, 1990 - RADIATION PUNCH NUKE PLANT WORKER CHARGED WITH SPIKING JUICE
  5. ↑ Nuclear power plants Plague: Point Lepreau (Canada)