Point Lepreau Nuclear Generating Station

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The Point Lepreau nuclear power plant is a Canadian nuclear power station in the west of the city of Saint John, New Brunswick. The power plant was built in 1975-1983 by the Canadian state enterprise NB Power on the north coast of the Bay of Fundy.

The Point Lepreau nuclear power plant is the only nuclear power plant in the Atlantic provinces of Canada. With a CANDU reactor, the plant achieved an output power of 640 MW. Point Lepreaus CANDU reactor is designed for an operating life of 25 years. Because this will end in 2008, the reactor is now being renovated for 1.4 billion CAD. This will add at the nuclear power plant for an additional 30 years of operation.

A disgruntled employee of the nuclear power plant was 1990 heavy water of the cooling circuit in a drinking water dispenser. Eight employees drank the contaminated water. The culprit was discovered, were found to be elevated tritium levels in the urine of employees.

Since the December 28, 2012 were carried shutdown that started operating in the same year as Point Lepreau reactor Gentilly -2 in the province of Quebec is Point Lepreau both the smallest nuclear power plant in Canada and the only remaining active reactor in Canada, which is outside the province of Ontario.