Ontario's Darlington Nuclear Power Station to Experience Planned Outages

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Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--The Darlington Power Station will start its vacuum-building outage with Unit 1 on April 16. Unit 2 will follow on April 19, and maintenance on the plant's other units will begin after this. Engineers have stated that this work takes place every 10 to 12 years for safety purposes. Plant officials expressed the fact that this outage is designed to prevent the release of radioactive material to the environment in the event of an accident.

Darlington is a 3,524-megawatt (MW) nuclear power station located in Bowmanville, Ontario. The station was built in 1985 with four 22-MW fuel oil, aero-derivative combustion turbines manufactured by Rolls Royce plc (OTC:RYCEY) (London, England). These units are currently running as peakers. In 1993, Ontario Power Generation decided to add four nuclear base load steam turbines of about 881 MW each to help supply electricity to more than 2 million customers in Ontario.

Ontario Power Generation is an electricity generation company located in Toronto, Ontario. The company has three nuclear power stations, five fossil-fueled power stations and thirty-five hydroelectric power stations with a total output of 22,173 megawatts in Ontario.

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