Pickering 1

Permanent Shutdown

Details

Reactor Type	Pressurized Heavy Water Reactor (or PHWR)
Model	CANDU 500A
Owner	Ontario Power Generation
Operator	Ontario Power Generation

Timeline

Construction Start	Wednesday, 1 June 1966
First Criticality	Thursday, 25 February 1971
First Grid Connection	Sunday, 4 April 1971
Commercial Operation	Thursday, 29 July 1971
Long-term Shutdown	Wednesday, 31 December 1997
Restart	Monday, 26 September 2005
Permanent Shutdown	Monday, 30 September 2024

Specifications

Capacity Net	515 MWe
Capacity Gross	542 MWe
Thermal Capacity	1744 MWt
Design Net Capacity	508 MWe

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 (%)
1971	514	4829	2302.30	78.20	100.00	100.00	80.40	80.40
1972	514	4117	2207.90	46.90	100.00	100.00	48.90	58.20
1973	514	8523	4222.40	95.70	94.00	97.50	92.30	72.40
1974	514	6979	3232.00	79.90	71.90	90.10	72.00	72.30
1975	512	7234	3592.80	82.80	80.20	87.80	80.30	74.10
1976	514	8136	4169.70	92.90	92.70	88.80	92.60	77.50
1977	514	7545	3852.80	86.40	85.80	88.30	85.80	78.80
1978	515	8359	4273.70	95.70	95.10	89.20	95.00	81.00
1979	515	7554	3781.40	85.30	85.30	88.70	82.90	81.20
1980	515	6640	3356.90	75.60	73.70	87.10	74.20	80.40
1981	515	7795	3947.70	89.00	88.00	87.20	87.50	81.10
1982	515	6915	3499.30	78.90	77.80	86.40	77.60	80.80
1983	515	6101	3070.80	69.60	68.10	84.90	68.10	79.80
1984	515	0	0.00	0.00	0.00	78.60	0.00	73.80
1985	515	0	0.00	0.00	0.00	73.10	0.00	68.70
1986	515	0	0.00	0.00	0.00	68.40	0.00	64.30
1987	515	1981	832.79	22.60	17.40	65.30	18.50	61.50
1988	515	8224	3986.48	93.60	89.10	66.70	88.10	63.00
1989	515	6943	3222.13	79.30	72.60	67.00	71.40	63.50
1990	515	7435	3041.75	84.90	70.60	67.20	67.40	63.70
1991	515	6525	3051.08	74.50	67.80	67.20	67.60	63.90
1992	515	5798	2919.96	66.00	65.40	67.10	64.60	63.90
1993	515	6908	3451.16	78.90	78.40	67.60	76.50	64.40
1994	515	1835	897.64	21.00	20.10	65.60	19.90	62.60
1995	515	4234	2013.23	48.30	44.80	64.70	44.60	61.80
1996	515	6202	3011.76	70.60	66.80	64.80	66.60	62.00
1997	515	8205	3950.80	94.70	89.70	65.80	88.50	63.00
1998	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1999	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2000	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2001	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2002	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2003	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2004	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2005	515	1230	584.96	55.70	95.90	66.00	51.40	62.90
2006	515	7260	3470.49	82.90	77.00	66.40	76.90	63.40
2007	515	3447	1750.26	39.40	38.90	65.50	38.80	62.50
2008	515	6221	2792.10	70.80	61.70	65.40	61.70	62.50
2009	515	8436	4108.77	96.30	91.20	66.20	91.10	63.40
2010	515	4983	2376.13	56.90	52.70	65.80	52.70	63.10
2011	515	7382	3669.17	84.30	81.50	66.20	81.30	63.70
2012	515	5799	2912.37	66.00	64.50	66.20	64.40	63.70
2013	515	4344	2074.98	49.60	46.00	65.60	46.00	63.20
2014	515	7855	3871.29	89.70	86.10	66.20	85.80	63.80
2015	515	5263	2599.85	60.10	57.80	66.00	57.60	63.60
2016	515	8784	4212.67	100.00	93.40	66.70	93.10	64.40
2017	515	5323	2608.49	60.80	57.90	66.50	57.80	64.20
2018	515	8503	4206.18	97.10	93.40	67.10	93.20	65.00
2019	515	8583	4299.59	98.00	95.50	67.80	95.30	65.70
2020	515	4660	2244.06	53.00	49.70	67.40	49.60	65.30
2021	515	8407	4183.00	96.00	92.80	68.00	92.70	66.00
2022	515	6046	2986.96	69.00	66.30	68.00	66.20	66.00
2023	515	8338	4165.01	95.20	92.30	68.50	92.30	66.60