Generating station reconnects to the New Brunswick grid
During this outage workers performed a wide variety of maintenance and inspection activities on both the nuclear and conventional sides of the plant.
"We are very happy to be operating again and delivering power to New Brunswickers," said Sean Granville, Site Vice President and Chief Nuclear Officer. "This was our first large scale planned maintenance outage since resuming full operations at the Station in 2012. Outages such as this are necessary to continue reliable, safe operation and to properly preserve this valuable generating asset for the future."
During this outage, staff identified an opportunity to perform work on the Station transformers, which triggered an extension of the outage. The planned maintenance outage process also has a large number of testing and inspection requirements during Station start up activities, many of which must be performed in sequence. The sequential nature of the process can often lead to additional time being required to return to service. The next planned maintenance outage is scheduled for 2016.
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