25 Apr (NucNet): Canada’s Bruce Power has signed CAD 914m (€582m, $708m) in advanced manufacturing contracts for a major component replacement project which gets underway in 2020 and will allow the Bruce nuclear site in Ontario to operate until 2064.
Bruce Power said in a statement on 24 April 2018 that the project agreements include:
- CAD 642m to BWXT Canada for the manufacturing of 32 steam generators to be produced at BWXT’s Cambridge facility.
- CAD 144m to Laker Energy Products for end fittings, liners and flow elements, which will be manufactured at its Oakville facility.
- CAD 62m to Cameco Fuel Manufacturing, in Cobourg, for calandria tubes and annulus spacers for Units 3 to 8 at Bruce.
- CAD 66m for Nu-Tech Precision Metals, in Arnprior, for the production of zirconium alloy pressure tubes for Units 3 and 6.
Bruce Power’s life extension programme, which started in January 2016, includes major component replacement on Units 3 to 8. Bruce Power said yesterday that the progrmme remains on time and on budget.
In 2015 Bruce Power estimated that the six refurbishments would cost CAD 8bn, in addition to CAD 5bn to be spent on a range of other life-extension activities from 2016-53.
There are eight pressurised heavy-water Candu reactor units at the Bruce site. They began commercial operation between September 1977 and May 1987.
