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$100 Site Donor 2021
A few different developments in the Ontario/Canadian nuclear space since my last update last year:
1. Cameco has been tapped to provide uranium hexafluoride to the Ukraine for fuel fabrication to get them away from Russia.
https://www.cameco.com/media/news/c...mmercial-terms-to-supply-ukraines-full-natura
2. The BWRX-300 has completed phases 1 and 2 of the VDR:
https://nuclearsafety.gc.ca/eng/rea...view/geh-nuclear-energy-executive-summary.cfm
3. OPG has submitted a license to construct the above BWRX-300 at Darlington. Site prep is already well underway.
https://www.opg.com/document/dnnp-application-for-a-licence-to-construct-a-reactor-facility-pdf
4. OPG's Pickering page has been updated with points about the potential refurbishment:
https://www.opg.com/powering-ontario/our-generation/nuclear/pickering-nuclear-generation-station/
5. OPG Darlington A is now producing Molybdenum-99:
https://laurentisenergy.com/media-r...le-of-producing-life-saving-medical-isotopes/
6. OPG Darlington A Unit 3 is being prepared to return to service. Initial fuel loading started at the beginning of January. This is the 2nd unit to have completed its refurbishment. Unit 1 is also actively being refurbished and Unit 4 is slated to go down the end of this year, and that's the final unit. Ideally, refurbishment staff will then move to Pickering B and start on those units.
https://www.opg.com/news-and-media/news/darlington-refurbishment-performance-update-q3-2022/
https://www.opg.com/news-and-media/news/fueling-the-road-to-restart-for-darlington-unit-3/
7. Bruce Power Unit 3 has gone down for refurbishment. This is the 3rd A unit to be refurbished (1 and 2 were completed in 2013):
https://www.brucepower.com/2023/03/02/bruce-power-begins-unit-3-major-component-replacement-outage/
8. Bruce Power Unit 6 is being prepared to return to service. This is the first of the B units to be refurbished.
https://www.brucepower.com/2022/12/...acement-project-celebrates-a-successful-2022/
1. Cameco has been tapped to provide uranium hexafluoride to the Ukraine for fuel fabrication to get them away from Russia.
https://www.cameco.com/media/news/c...mmercial-terms-to-supply-ukraines-full-natura
2. The BWRX-300 has completed phases 1 and 2 of the VDR:
https://nuclearsafety.gc.ca/eng/rea...view/geh-nuclear-energy-executive-summary.cfm
3. OPG has submitted a license to construct the above BWRX-300 at Darlington. Site prep is already well underway.
https://www.opg.com/document/dnnp-application-for-a-licence-to-construct-a-reactor-facility-pdf
4. OPG's Pickering page has been updated with points about the potential refurbishment:
https://www.opg.com/powering-ontario/our-generation/nuclear/pickering-nuclear-generation-station/
5. OPG Darlington A is now producing Molybdenum-99:
https://laurentisenergy.com/media-r...le-of-producing-life-saving-medical-isotopes/
6. OPG Darlington A Unit 3 is being prepared to return to service. Initial fuel loading started at the beginning of January. This is the 2nd unit to have completed its refurbishment. Unit 1 is also actively being refurbished and Unit 4 is slated to go down the end of this year, and that's the final unit. Ideally, refurbishment staff will then move to Pickering B and start on those units.
https://www.opg.com/news-and-media/news/darlington-refurbishment-performance-update-q3-2022/
https://www.opg.com/news-and-media/news/fueling-the-road-to-restart-for-darlington-unit-3/
7. Bruce Power Unit 3 has gone down for refurbishment. This is the 3rd A unit to be refurbished (1 and 2 were completed in 2013):
https://www.brucepower.com/2023/03/02/bruce-power-begins-unit-3-major-component-replacement-outage/
8. Bruce Power Unit 6 is being prepared to return to service. This is the first of the B units to be refurbished.
https://www.brucepower.com/2022/12/...acement-project-celebrates-a-successful-2022/