Darlington Nuclear Power Plant

Darlington Nuclear Power Plant
Darlington Nuclear Power Plant
location
Coordinates	43 ° 52 '22 "  N , 78 ° 43' 11"  W Coordinates: 43 ° 52 '22 "  N , 78 ° 43' 11"  W.
Country:	Canada
Data
Owner:	Ontario Hydro
Operator:	Ontario Power Generation
Project start:	1975
Commercial operation:	Oct 9, 1990
Active reactors (gross):	4 (3736 MW)
Energy fed in in 2010:	26,613.78 GWh
Energy fed in since commissioning:	478,278 GWh
Was standing:	May 17, 2011
The data source of the respective entries can be found in the documentation .

The Darlington Nuclear Power Plant in Clarington, Ontario with four CANDU reactors has a gross output of 3740  MW .

The nuclear power plant was built in several construction phases between 1981 and 1993 by the Canadian state company Ontario Hydro. After the company was split up in April 1999, the newly founded company Ontario Power Generation (OPG) is now continuing to operate the power plant.

Many Ontario residents remember the Darlington Nuclear Power Plant for its massive cost overrun. The initial estimated cost of 2.5 billion CAD increased to completion 14.4 billion CAD. The discussion about responsibility for costs flares up again and again, especially in election years.

There has been speculation that two additional reactors of the CANDU-6 type, each with a capacity of 700 MW, will be built on the site of the power plant. In October 2013, the new building was canceled due to existing excess performance.

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Panoramic shot of the nuclear power plant

Data of the reactor blocks

The Darlington Nuclear Power Plant has a total of four blocks :

Reactor block	Reactor type	net power	gross power	start of building	Network synchronization	Commercialization of essential operation	switching off processing
Darlington-1	CANDU-850	878 MW	934 MW	04/01/1982	December 19, 1990	11/14/1992	(Planned for 2032)
Darlington-2	CANDU-850	878 MW	934 MW	09/01/1981	January 15, 1990	10/09/1990	(2055 planned)
Darlington-3	CANDU-850	878 MW	934 MW	09/01/1984	12/07/1992	02/14/1993	(Planned for 2033)
Darlington-4	CANDU-850	878 MW	934 MW	07/01/1985	04/17/1993	06/14/1993	(Planned for 2033)

See also

• List of nuclear power plants
• Nuclear power in Canada
• List of nuclear reactors in Canada
• List of CANDU reactors

Web links

Commons : Darlington Nuclear Power Plant  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Paddy Moore: Who's got the power? In: CBC.ca. Retrieved August 3, 2006 . 
2. ^ CTV: New Darlington nuclear reactor may come soon. In: CTV.ca. Retrieved August 3, 2006 . 
3. ↑ https://globalnews.ca/news/894709/ontario-nixes-building-two-nuclear-reactors/
4. ↑ Power Reactor Information System of the IAEA : "Canada: Nuclear Power Reactors - Alphabetic" (English)
5. ↑ IAEA PRIS - Nuclear Power Reactors in the World, Reference Data Series No.2 (English; PDF; 1.7 MB)