The team behind the refurbishment is comprised of OPG’s partners, industry experts, energy professionals, and tradespeople. These reports are subject to approval by the commission. We have recently upgraded our technology platform. Prior to the pandemic, the team was on track to begin Unit 3’s refurbishment in April. Hitachi’s scrapped nuclear power project in North Wales, Hitachi withdraws from £20bn Wylfa Newydd nuclear project in UK, TENEX – winner of the Mitsubishi Research Institute’s tender. The Darlington nuclear generating station comprises four Canada Deuterium Uranium (CANDU) pressurised heavy-water reactor (PHWR) units of 881MW capacity each. The refurbishment of each generating unit at the site is expected to take approximately three years. Darlington to become first large-scale nuclear station to produce molybdenum-99 . Darlington’s Integrated Safety Review confirmed the plant met modern codes and standards, and that it has been using industry best practices. Although the refurbishment of the plant’s Unit-3 was originally scheduled to be started in May 2020, it has been temporarily delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The same joint venture was also engaged for the definition phase of the refurbishment project between 2012 and 2016. The refurbishment of the Unit-3 is planned to be carried out between 2020 and 2024, the Unit-1 between 2022 and 2025, and the Unit-4 between 2023 and 2026. The Darlington Nuclear Generating Station, one of the top performing nuclear stations in the world, has produced 20% of Ontario’s electricity since the early 1990s. Black and McDonald was engaged for the inspection, overhaul, maintenance, and replacement of valves, as well as for heat exchangers and a piping modification works for the refurbishment project. That means the reactor has initially shown its capacity to maintain a sustained chain reaction and create the energy needed to produce electricity, said Jeff Richardson, senior vice-president, Nuclear Projects. The refurbishment of the second reactor unit (Unit-2) of the plant was started in 2016 and completed in March 2020.
BWXT Canada was subcontracted by the SNC-Lavalin / Aecon joint venture (JV) to manufacture and supply the feeders for Units 1, 3, and 4 reactors as part of the Darlington nuclear power station refurbishment project in April 2017. We use them to give you the best experience. The refurbishment project will extend the Darlington nuclear power plant’s operational life until 2055. Due to this change if you are seeing this message for the first time please make sure you reset your password using the Forgot your password Link. ‘Massive investments’ needed in clean technologies to meet Paris Agreement goals, Alaska mine CEO resigns over comments made in ‘Pebble Tapes’ exposé, California governor Gavin Newsom to ban sales of new petrol vehicles by 2035, World must build on ‘growing momentum’ behind carbon capture, says IEA, Australian government’s new gas announcements ‘flogging a dead horse’. We have recently upgraded our technology platform. The business decision to move forward with an investment in Darlington came after initial studies on the plant's condition operating performance returned positive results.