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Forgot to update the other thread, so I figured this deserves a new one.
On April 7th, 2020, Darlington Unit 2 achieved first criticality since the refurbishment, marking a huge step in bringing the unit back online. Constraints have been lifted for it to start generating electricity, so there has been testing since the 7th performed and I expect to see it come back online quite soon.
My primary interest, now that we know the unit operates, is what its output will level-off at. I expect it will be more than 880MWe, but I could be unpleasantly surprised
Unlike Bruce Power, who has stated unequivocally that uprates will be part of their refurbishment and life extension activities, OPG has stated they are not actively looking at increasing unit output. This is only somewhat slightly undermined by the results of a recent maintenance outage a Pickering where a 515MWe unit returned to service at ~540MWe (though it varies a bit).
It's also been confirmed that Darlington Unit 3 won't be going down until the fall now, which means all four Darlington units will be online for this summer. Assuming Bruce 4 and Pickering 1 and 8 are also back up (which they should be, they are down for spring maintenance) we'll have around 12,500MWe of nuclear online to handle the summer peak which means some very low emissions
On April 7th, 2020, Darlington Unit 2 achieved first criticality since the refurbishment, marking a huge step in bringing the unit back online. Constraints have been lifted for it to start generating electricity, so there has been testing since the 7th performed and I expect to see it come back online quite soon.
My primary interest, now that we know the unit operates, is what its output will level-off at. I expect it will be more than 880MWe, but I could be unpleasantly surprised
It's also been confirmed that Darlington Unit 3 won't be going down until the fall now, which means all four Darlington units will be online for this summer. Assuming Bruce 4 and Pickering 1 and 8 are also back up (which they should be, they are down for spring maintenance) we'll have around 12,500MWe of nuclear online to handle the summer peak which means some very low emissions