Bruce 6

Operable

Details

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

Timeline

Construction Start	Sunday, 1 January 1978
First Criticality	Tuesday, 29 May 1984
First Grid Connection	Tuesday, 26 June 1984
Commercial Operation	Friday, 14 September 1984

Specifications

Capacity Net	817 MWe
Capacity Gross	891 MWe
Thermal Capacity	2690 MWt
Design Net Capacity	822 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 (%)
1984	795	4230	3068.32	99.90	98.80	98.80	98.80	98.80
1985	815	7369	5900.13	84.10	84.00	87.70	83.70	87.40
1986	837	7213	5716.03	82.30	77.80	83.40	78.10	83.40
1987	837	8610	7017.10	98.30	95.30	87.00	95.70	87.10
1988	837	7880	6139.49	89.70	89.10	87.50	83.50	86.30
1989	837	7069	5386.17	80.70	73.40	84.80	73.50	83.80
1990	860	7429	6213.64	84.80	82.30	84.40	83.20	83.70
1991	860	8194	7013.36	93.50	93.00	85.60	93.10	85.10
1992	860	6393	5328.20	72.80	70.50	83.80	70.50	83.30
1993	860	6950	4351.00	79.30	58.00	81.00	57.80	80.50
1994	860	8760	6451.71	100.00	85.80	81.40	85.60	81.00
1995	860	6049	4671.57	69.00	62.10	79.70	62.00	79.30
1996	860	8682	6822.75	98.80	90.40	80.60	90.30	80.20
1997	860	6201	4796.41	70.80	63.70	79.30	63.70	78.90
1998	785	6137	4678.62	70.10	68.00	78.60	68.00	78.20
1999	785	8760	6860.15	100.00	99.30	79.80	99.80	79.50
2000	785	5912	4668.21	67.30	66.80	79.10	67.70	78.90
2001	790	8624	6840.06	98.40	98.30	80.10	98.80	80.00
2002	790	4539	3522.45	51.80	50.60	78.60	50.90	78.40
2003	790	8559	6750.85	97.70	98.20	79.60	97.60	79.40
2004	841	6698	5379.09	76.20	76.60	79.40	75.40	79.20
2005	822	7151	5721.10	81.60	79.60	79.40	78.90	79.20
2006	822	8760	7104.45	100.00	99.30	80.30	98.70	80.00
2007	822	6363	5145.02	72.60	71.80	80.00	71.40	79.70
2008	817	8452	6857.25	96.20	95.40	80.60	95.60	80.30
2009	817	7732	6063.07	88.30	91.30	81.00	84.70	80.50
2010	817	6815	5471.91	77.80	76.50	80.80	76.50	80.40
2011	817	8277	6552.52	94.50	94.00	81.30	91.60	80.80
2012	817	8784	7125.32	100.00	99.60	81.90	99.30	81.40
2013	817	7174	5684.00	81.90	81.00	81.90	79.40	81.30
2014	817	8488	6768.62	96.90	97.70	82.40	94.60	81.80
2015	817	6694	5344.31	76.40	76.20	82.20	74.70	81.50
2016	817	8613	6875.21	98.00	97.10	82.70	95.80	82.00
2017	817	7164	5741.56	81.80	81.00	82.60	80.20	81.90
2018	817	8718	7059.65	99.50	99.00	83.10	98.60	82.40
2019	817	8224	6498.25	93.90	91.70	83.40	90.80	82.60
2020	817	408	313.80	4.60	4.70	81.20	4.40	80.50
2021	817	0	0.00	0.00	0.00	79.00	0.00	78.40
2022	817	0	0.00	0.00	0.00	77.00	0.00	76.30
2023	817	2759	2197.13	31.50	30.80	75.80	30.70	75.20