Douglas Point Nuclear Power Plant (Canada)

Douglas Point Nuclear Power Plant (Canada)
Bruce 5 to 6 in the foreground , Douglas Point in the background on the left
location
Coordinates	44 ° 20 ′ 0 ″  N , 81 ° 36 ′ 0 ″  W Coordinates: 44 ° 20 ′ 0 ″  N , 81 ° 36 ′ 0 ″  W
Country:	Canada
Data
Owner:	Atomic Energy of Canada Limited
Operator:	Ontario Hydro
Project start:	1959
Commercial operation:	Sept. 26, 1968
Shutdown:	May 4th 1984
Decommissioned reactors (gross):	1 (218 MW)
Energy fed in since commissioning:	15,629 GWh
Was standing:	June 5, 2009
The data source of the respective entries can be found in the documentation .

Douglas Point was Canada's first commercially operated nuclear power plant and Canada's second CANDU reactor . The power plant with a gross electrical output of 218 MW is located near Kincardine, Ontario and was in operation from September 26, 1968 to May 4, 1984.

After the successful operation of the Nuclear Power Demonstrator as a demonstration reactor, which is considered to be the first reactor of the CANDU series and was intended to prove the feasibility of this concept, the decision was announced in 1959 to provide Canada's first commercially operated nuclear power plant with an advanced prototype of the CANDU reactor to build. The reactor went critical for the first time on November 15, 1966 at 4:26 p.m. local time . The network synchronization took place on January 7, 1967 commercial operation began on 26 September 1968th

In the early days in particular, there were problems with the reactor loading machines and insufficient valves in the reactor's primary circuit, which was filled with heavy water. Due to the experience gained in this way, many of these problems could be avoided during the subsequent construction of the CANDU units of the Pickering A nuclear power plant .

On May 4, 1984, 17 years after commissioning, the reactor was finally shut down because the owner Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. did not consider the necessary general overhaul of the reactor to be profitable enough due to the low output compared to the CANDU units, which were newer at the time.

Reactor block	Reactor type	net power	gross power	start of building	Network synchronization	Commercial operation	Shutdown
Douglas Point	CANDU prototype	206 MW	218 MW	06/24/1959	07/01/1967	09/26/1968	05/04/1984

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Douglas Point Story ( Memento of the original from May 9, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English) 
2. ↑ The Historical Significance of the Douglas Point Nuclear Power Plant ( Memento of the original from September 28, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF, English) 

See also

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