Pickering 4

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 May 1968
First Criticality	Wednesday, 16 May 1973
First Grid Connection	Monday, 21 May 1973
Commercial Operation	Sunday, 17 June 1973
Long-term Shutdown	Friday, 2 January 1998
Restart	Sunday, 21 September 2003
Permanent Shutdown	Tuesday, 31 December 2024

Specifications

Capacity Net	515 MWe
Capacity Gross	542 MWe
Thermal Capacity	1744 MWt
Design Net Capacity	508 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 (%)
1973	514	4402	2226.60	91.80	90.60	90.60	90.40	90.40
1974	514	8356	4221.00	95.60	94.00	92.80	94.00	92.80
1975	513	2201	1094.20	25.20	24.20	65.60	24.40	65.70
1976	514	6063	3089.00	69.20	68.20	66.40	68.60	66.50
1977	514	7975	4107.20	91.30	90.30	71.70	91.50	72.00
1978	515	7876	4033.90	90.20	89.70	74.90	89.70	75.20
1979	515	8059	4102.20	91.00	91.00	77.40	89.90	77.50
1980	515	7321	3700.50	83.30	81.80	78.00	81.80	78.10
1981	515	8078	4142.00	92.20	91.60	79.60	91.80	79.70
1982	515	8087	4137.90	92.30	91.80	80.90	91.70	81.00
1983	515	8183	4170.20	93.40	92.30	82.00	92.40	82.10
1984	515	7425	3733.30	84.50	82.80	82.00	82.50	82.10
1985	515	6824	3438.86	77.90	77.50	81.70	76.20	81.60
1986	515	7410	3687.37	84.60	83.20	81.80	81.70	81.60
1987	515	7495	3770.41	85.60	84.00	81.90	83.60	81.80
1988	515	6525	3166.17	74.30	70.10	81.20	70.00	81.00
1989	515	5468	2255.49	62.40	50.00	79.30	50.00	79.10
1990	515	2851	1070.83	32.60	23.70	76.10	23.70	76.00
1991	515	5185	2130.76	59.20	47.30	74.60	47.20	74.40
1992	515	0	0.00	0.00	0.00	70.70	0.00	70.60
1993	515	6711	3309.63	76.60	73.80	70.90	73.40	70.70
1994	515	7915	4009.64	90.40	89.50	71.70	88.90	71.60
1995	515	5684	2806.96	64.90	63.30	71.40	62.20	71.20
1996	515	2230	1134.91	25.40	25.10	69.40	25.10	69.20
1997	515	0	0.00	0.00	0.00	66.60	0.00	66.40
1998	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1999	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2000	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2001	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2002	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2003	515	1880	844.81	82.70	72.30	66.60	72.30	66.40
2004	515	6739	3266.76	76.70	72.10	66.80	72.20	66.60
2005	515	5900	2996.45	67.40	66.40	66.80	66.40	66.60
2006	515	6149	2976.54	70.20	66.00	66.80	66.00	66.60
2007	515	4086	1959.14	46.60	43.40	66.00	43.40	65.80
2008	515	7765	3656.45	88.40	80.80	66.50	80.80	66.30
2009	515	3845	1620.17	43.90	35.90	65.50	35.90	65.30
2010	515	6583	3203.51	75.20	71.10	65.70	71.00	65.50
2011	515	4919	2401.12	56.20	53.30	65.30	53.20	65.10
2012	515	6592	3310.83	75.00	73.40	65.50	73.20	65.40
2013	515	7798	3884.54	89.00	86.30	66.10	86.10	66.00
2014	515	5772	2853.53	65.90	63.30	66.00	63.20	65.90
2015	515	8604	4266.31	98.20	94.70	66.80	94.60	66.70
2016	515	5169	2455.22	58.80	54.30	66.50	54.30	66.40
2017	515	7978	3961.10	91.10	87.90	67.00	87.80	66.90
2018	515	5901	2792.32	67.40	62.10	66.90	61.90	66.80
2019	515	8760	4421.44	100.00	98.20	67.70	98.00	67.50
2020	515	5555	2755.54	63.20	60.90	67.50	60.90	67.40
2021	515	8684	4286.99	99.10	95.10	68.20	95.00	68.00
2022	515	8020	3965.81	91.60	87.90	68.60	87.90	68.50
2023	515	6644	3284.29	75.80	72.90	68.70	72.80	68.60