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Bruce Power is a leading supplier of medical isotopes that are used worldwide in cancer-fighting treatments and sterilization of medical devices. Learn more about Medical Isotopes
Established in 2001, Bruce Power is Canada’s only private sector nuclear generator, annually producing 30 per cent of Ontario’s power. Ontario’s Long-Term Energy Plan is counting on Bruce Power to provide a reliable and carbon-free source of affordable energy through 2064.
At Bruce Power, there are limitless opportunities to pursue multiple career paths and take on exciting new challenges, all while enjoying small town, lakeside living. Explore a career with us!
Bruce Power operates eight nuclear reactors on Lake Huron where it leases the Bruce site from Ontario Power Generation. With those eight units in operation, the facility has a capacity of 5,403 megawatts and typically supplies nearly 30 per cent of the electricity used in Ontario's provincial power grid. [2]
With eight CANDU pressurized heavy-water reactors, it was the world's largest fully operational nuclear generating station by total reactor count and the number of currently operational reactors until 2016, when it was exceeded in nameplate capacity by South Korea's Kori Nuclear Power Plant .
Feb 29, 2024 · The federal government is spending $50 million on preliminary work for an expansion of the Bruce Power nuclear plant — Ottawa's first major investment in expanding a large nuclear plant in...
Bruce Power is Canada’s first private nuclear generator, providing 30% of Ontario’s electricity and employing more than 4,000 full-time employees. We inject billions into Ontario’s economy each year, all while producing safe energy with zero carbon emissions.
Oct 14, 2021 · Bruce Power will complete a Cobalt-60 isotope harvest later this year, which will provide enough isotopes to sterilize 10 billion pairs of surgical gloves and COVID swabs.
Dec 6, 2023 · Bruce Power’s Project 2030 is a program of replacements and upgrades across the Bruce Generating Nuclear units to optimize output from existing assets and projects.
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