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More than 200 days after going offline for what was supposed to be a 100-day maintenance shutdown, the Point Lepreau nuclear generating station remains idle with no definite word on when it will be able to generate electricity again.
N.B. Power’s Point Lepreau generating station has been offline since April with no definite return date
Robert Jones · CBC News
· Posted: Oct 28, 2024 5:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 27 minutes ago
The Point Lepreau Nuclear Generating Station has not operated since the first week in April. A breakdown in its main generator has taken weeks longer to fix than first expected. (Marc Godbout/Radio-Canada)
More than 200 days after going offline for what was supposed to be a 98-day maintenance shutdown the Point Lepreau nuclear generating station remains idle with no definite word on when it will be able to generate electricity again.
In an email last week the utility declined to commit to a previously estimated mid-November restart date and will say only that it has a “goal” of completing repairs on the station’s troubled generator sometime in November.
However, reconnecting to New Brunswick’s electrical grid following repairs will take an uncertain amount of additional time, according to N.B. Power spokesperson Dominique Couture.
“The next steps will be to proceed with start-up activities including Station equipment checks and testing protocol,” Couture said in an email to CBC News about what happens when repairs are complete.
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