It will allow a major life extension (Canadian reactors are not relicensed for 20 years like American ones but rather allowed to operate in two-year increments until they fail to meet regulations). This life extension program will also involve the replacement of other components (mainly the pressure tubes that hold bundles of fuel rods in Canadian reactors and the steam generators), which will require a fairly long outage beginning in about 2010.
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Posted on April 30, 2007 by Stewart Peterson |
