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This morning Darlington Unit 1, which was officially commissioned on November 14th, 1992 and had previously, on Tuesday, September 15th, 2020, broken the world record runtime for a nuclear unit at 963 days, has broken the world thermal generating record, which was 1,073 days and 1 hour and held by Unit 4 at Stanwell Power Station, a coal generating facility in Australia.
Unit 1 is still going. The next milestone if she doesn't go down for maintenance will be 3 years. She has produced ~22TWh so far, uninterrupted.
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Unit 1 is still going. The next milestone if she doesn't go down for maintenance will be 3 years. She has produced ~22TWh so far, uninterrupted.
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Ontario Nuclear update - World record
As of today, OPG Darlington Unit 1 has set the record for the longest uninterrupted run in history for a nuclear unit at 963 days (and counting). That means this unit has produced 20.3TWh since its last outage. For perspective, South Australia uses ~12.2TWh/year. The last time an Ontario CANDU...
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