Bruce Power says nuclear unit to start soon
Bruce Power was bought by a conglomerate of Canadian companies, led by Cameco Corp. from its parent British Energy Plc in December. The company said restart of its Bruce A unit 4 will add 750 megawatts of nuclear power to the grid once several tests are completed.
Its Bruce A unit 3 will start generating electricity a month after unit 4 is restarted and will generate another 750 MW of electricity.
The restart of the two units has been delayed for months as Bruce Power has performed extra tests.
"We did have delays as we had to go through the checking of the wires," Steve Canon, a Bruce Power spokesman said.
Earlier in the year, Bruce has said it would start one of the units in April and the other in June, just in time for peak electricity demand in Ontario.
The Bruce A units 3 and 4 were mothballed in 1988.
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