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The Pickering nuclear station skilled a ‘trip’ on Saturday, with a non-radioactive plume of steam despatched skyward as dozens of individuals having fun with the sunshine on the metropolis’s waterfront watched.
The journey was precipitated because the turbine for the #4 reactor, in its ultimate years of operation, was decoupled from the grid, which meant the steam driving the turbine was diverted to the environment.
The plume is regular for steam-driven generator loss at any energy plant, with the trapped steam safely vented to the environment. The larger-than-normal steam plume can also be a part of the traditional shut-down and start-up course of and has no affect on the atmosphere.
However for these in attendance at Pickering’s lakefront Saturday night, it was a sight value seeing.
Two of the 4 reactors at Pickering ‘A’ station have already been decommissioned, whereas the remaining two reactors – together with #4 – are at the moment within the strategy of being mothballed. Your complete facility will likely be shut down in 2026 whereas the 4 ‘B’ reactors – all constructed within the Eighties – are being refurbished, a call introduced by the provincial authorities in late January.
The refurbishment will take at the least a decade to finish with the station set to be working once more by the mid-2030s. The same $12.8 billion refurbishment on the close by Darlington nuclear station in Clarington is greater than midway completed.
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