Douglas Point Nuclear Generating Station

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The Douglas Point nuclear power plant was the first commercial nuclear power plant in Canada and Canada's second CANDU reactor. The power plant with a gross electrical output of 218 MW located near Kincardine, Ontario, and was dated 26 September 1968 to May 4, 1984 in operation.

After the successful operation of Nuclear Power demonstrator as a demonstration reactor, which serves as the first reactor of the CANDU series applies and should prove the feasibility of this concept, 1959 decision, the first commercial nuclear power plant in Canada with an advanced prototype of the CANDU reactor was announced to. construct On November 15, 1966 at 16:26 clock local time, the reactor was the first time critical. The network synchronization took place on 7 January 1967 and commercial operation began on 26 September 1968.

Especially in the early days there were problems among others, the loaders of the reactor and insufficient valves when filled with heavy water primary circuit of the reactor. Based on the experience thus gained many of these problems in the subsequent construction of CANDU units of the power plant Pickering A were avoided.

On 4 May 1984, 17 years after start-up, the reactor was finally shut down because the owner Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd.. the necessary overhaul of the reactor due to the - compared with the newer at this time CANDU blocks - not profitable enough low power than at her.