Bruce Nuclear Generating Station

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Bruce Nuclear Generating Station is a Canadian nuclear power station located in the communities of Inverhuron and Tiverton, Ontario. The facility derives its name from Bruce County in which it is located.

The facility was constructed in stages between 1970-1987 by the provincial Crown corporation, Ontario Hydro. In April 1999 Ontario Hydro was split into 5 component Crown corporations with Ontario Power Generation (OPG) taking over all electrical generating stations. In June 2000, OPG entered into a long term lease agreement with private sector consortium Bruce Power to take over operation of the Bruce station. In May 2001, Bruce Power began operations.

The Bruce station is the largest nuclear facility in Canada in terms of output and also one of the largest nuclear facilities in the world, comprising 8 CANDU nuclear reactors located on the eastern shore of Lake Huron, having a total output of 6,232 MW (net) and 7,276 MW (gross) when all units are online. Current output with 6 of the 8 reactors on line is 4,640 MW.

The reactors are as follows:

BRUCE A

Bruce A

BRUCE A 1 (being refurbished)
BRUCE A 2 (being refurbished)
BRUCE A 3
BRUCE A 4

BRUCE B

BRUCE B 5
BRUCE B 6
BRUCE B 7
BRUCE B 8

In the autumn of 2005, Bruce Power and the Government of Ontario committed to return units 1 and 2 to service, in order to help meet increasing energy demand in the province of Ontario.[1]

The Province of Ontario has announced plans to build a new nuclear station. The leading candidate is AECL's Advanced CANDU Reactor. Environmental assessments are currently underway at Bruce Power's Bruce Nuclear Generating Station in Tiverton and a site next to Ontario Power Generation's Darlington Nuclear Generating Station.

Encompassed by the Bruce site is the shut-down Douglas Point reactor, an earlier version of the CANDU design.