Bruce 3

Operable

Details

Reactor Type	Pressurized Heavy Water Reactor (or PHWR)
Model	CANDU 750A
Owner	Ontario Power Generation
Operator	Bruce Power

Timeline

Construction Start	Saturday, 1 July 1972
First Criticality	Monday, 28 November 1977
First Grid Connection	Monday, 12 December 1977
Commercial Operation	Wednesday, 1 February 1978
Long-term Shutdown	Wednesday, 1 April 1998
Restart	Thursday, 8 January 2004

Specifications

Capacity Net	770 MWe
Capacity Gross	865 MWe
Thermal Capacity	2550 MWt
Design Net Capacity	750 MWe

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Operational History

Electricity Supplied (GWh)

Energy Availability Factor (%)

Total Electricity Supplied (GWh)

Reactor History

Year	Reference Unit Power (MWe)	Annual Time Online (Hours)	Electricity Supplied (GWh)	Operation Factor (%)	Energy Availability Annual (%)	Energy Availability Cumulative (%)	Load Factor Annual (%)	Load Factor Cumulative (%)
1977	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1978	740	7361	4793.00	93.20	87.60	87.60	82.00	82.00
1979	740	6885	4797.90	77.70	77.80	82.40	73.20	77.40
1980	740	8276	5939.80	94.20	91.40	85.50	91.40	82.20
1981	740	7873	5795.00	89.90	89.50	86.50	89.40	84.00
1982	740	8497	6381.90	97.00	96.70	88.60	98.40	87.00
1983	740	7905	6091.10	90.20	89.20	88.70	94.00	88.20
1984	740	8077	6148.73	92.00	91.20	89.10	94.60	89.10
1985	775	8118	6015.13	92.70	88.60	89.00	88.60	89.00
1986	848	7600	5891.24	86.80	84.20	88.40	84.50	88.50
1987	848	7724	6073.27	88.20	81.90	87.70	81.80	87.70
1988	848	4044	3310.57	46.00	45.60	83.40	44.40	83.30
1989	848	5364	4031.74	61.20	54.80	80.80	54.30	80.70
1990	848	7472	5652.68	85.30	76.30	80.40	76.10	80.30
1991	848	7950	6126.29	90.80	82.40	80.60	82.50	80.40
1992	848	7438	5800.97	84.70	77.90	80.40	77.90	80.30
1993	848	6557	3158.23	74.80	43.00	77.90	42.50	77.70
1994	848	5006	2737.62	57.20	36.80	75.30	36.80	75.20
1995	848	7000	4225.82	79.90	56.90	74.20	56.90	74.10
1996	848	5684	3321.48	64.70	44.60	72.50	44.60	72.40
1997	848	6325	4214.82	72.20	56.80	71.70	56.70	71.60
1998	848	2328	1642.52	97.90	81.40	71.80	81.40	71.70
1999	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2000	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2001	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2002	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2003	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2004	750	7154	4971.58	81.40	76.10	72.00	75.30	71.90
2005	750	6782	4938.11	77.40	75.20	72.20	75.20	72.00
2006	750	7435	5440.25	84.90	82.90	72.60	82.80	72.50
2007	750	6911	4966.67	78.90	76.00	72.70	75.60	72.60
2008	734	7125	5148.88	81.10	79.30	73.00	79.90	72.80
2009	730	7148	5162.09	81.60	80.40	73.20	80.70	73.10
2010	730	6198	4375.77	70.80	68.40	73.10	68.40	73.00
2011	730	6959	5084.86	79.40	78.90	73.20	79.50	73.20
2012	730	4617	3352.06	52.60	52.20	72.60	52.30	72.50
2013	730	7914	5518.71	90.30	94.00	73.20	86.30	72.90
2014	730	5718	4125.00	65.30	64.60	73.00	64.50	72.70
2015	750	7831	5827.57	89.40	89.00	73.50	88.90	73.20
2016	750	6579	4995.72	74.90	75.50	73.50	75.80	73.20
2017	750	7344	5502.68	83.80	83.20	73.80	83.80	73.50
2018	750	8079	6268.88	92.20	92.20	74.30	95.40	74.10
2019	750	5592	4213.89	63.80	62.40	74.00	64.10	73.90
2020	770	8574	6776.48	97.60	97.10	74.60	100.20	74.60
2021	770	4022	3164.00	45.90	45.10	73.80	46.90	73.90
2022	770	7953	6220.67	90.80	89.10	74.20	92.20	74.30
2023	770	1438	1145.06	16.40	16.20	72.80	17.00	72.90