Pickering Nuclear Generating Station
FEB 25, 2015
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.030905
On this day in 1971 the first of an eventual eight reactor units, A1, at the Pickering Nuclear Generating Station on the North Shore of Lake Ontario in Canada came online. Although two of the units, A2 and A3, have been decommissioned, Pickering continues to put out 4 GW of electrical power. In 1994, A7 set a world record of 894 days for continuous operation without a shutdown.
Date in History: 25 February 1971
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