Bruce Power and partners look back at productive, foundational year in 2025

With the holiday season nearly here and the new year quickly approaching, Bruce Power is looking back on a year that was foundational in powering Ontario forward.

The company’s operations and project work in 2025 helped set the table for a bright future in the local communities and beyond as it continues to drive the economy, power one-third of Ontario’s homes, businesses and hospitals, and build for the future.

The work Bruce Power and its employees and partners are completing today will bring future opportunities to the region and the province, while supporting Canada’s energy independence.

Here’s a look at Bruce Power’s accomplishments in 2025:

JANUARY
 

• Bruce Power was named one of Canada’s Top Employers for Young People for the 14th consecutive year as it continues to provide excellent opportunities for people to begin and flourish in a career in the nuclear industry.
• In a response to the growing need for qualified child-care workers in Bruce County, Bruce Power provided 23 Early Childhood Education students with scholarships.

FEBRUARY
 

• Bruce Power, its partners and skilled tradespeople kicked off the Unit 4 Major Component Replacement (MCR) outage, representing the middle of the company’s MCR project that will see Units 3-8 renewed to provide clean, reliable energy for provinces people, businesses and hospitals for decades to come, while ensuring a dependable source of cancer-fighting medical isotopes to the world health-care community.
• As a leader in the production of cancer-fighting medical isotopes, Bruce Power completed the largest harvest of Cobalt-60 in its history during its Unit 5 planned outage, bolstering the global health-care community’s supply of this key tool in fighting disease, the sterilization of medical equipment, and food safety.
• It required a lot of heavy lifting, but all eight hulking steam generators were placed into Unit 3 and the MCR outage, which began in 2023, remains on track as the company and its partners look to return the renewed unit to service in 2026.
• Bruce Power completed its Unit 4 MCR outage de-fuel milestone in just 24 days, the most efficient de-fuel in the history of CANDU reactors.

MARCH
 

• The Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO) verified Bruce Power met the terms and conditions of the company’s Basis of Estimate to proceed with its Unit 5 MCR project, scheduled to begin in 2026.

APRIL
 

• Bruce Power launched its Canadian at our Core campaign, committing to continue to promote the made-in-Ontario and Canada nuclear industry, and urging its partners and suppliers to buy local, and buy Canadian. Closer to home in the Clean Energy Frontier Region of Bruce, Grey and Huron counties, Bruce Power is encouraging, suppliers, employees and the community to shop local to support the economy, as well as reconciliation through action with Indigenous communities.
• Bruce Power donated $150,000 to the Brightshores Health System Owen Sound Foundation toward the purchase of a new CT scanner to enhance diagnostic imaging for patients across the region.

MAY
 

• Bruce Power donated $1-million to a new youth wellness project to benefit people, aged 12-25, in Bruce, Grey, Huron and Perth counties. The Well Community Collective (The Well) is a community-driven initiative committed to improving youth mental health and well-being.

JUNE
 

• Bruce Power marked World Environment Day by releasing its 2025 Sustainability Report to highlight its unwavering commitment to being a responsible steward for people, communities, and the environment.
• Bruce Power and its supplier partners donated $100,000 to the Brain Tumour Foundation of Canada in honour of World Brain Tumour Day.
• Bruce Power applauded the release of Ontario’s Integrated Energy Plan: Energy for Generations, which set out a vision for the future of the province’s energy system and provides clear actions to power the province and the economy. The report recognized Bruce Power’s ongoing Life-Extension Program and MCR project, with the refurbishment of Units 3-8 on schedule to be completed by 2033 to ensure 7,000 megawatts of peak output for the people of Ontario. The government report also mentioned the potential option of refurbishing Units 1 and 2 for a second time and that it would be based on an assessment of system needs by the IESO and value to the ratepayer.

JULY
 

• Ontario energy minister Stephen Lecce announced the formation of the Nuclear Isotope Innovation Council of Ontario (NIICO) and introduced Bruce Power’s James Scongack as the appointed chairperson for the newly-formed ministerial advisory panel.
• During a break in the music at Rock With Your Docs, Bruce Power’s James Scongack stepped to the mic and brought the crowd to its feet with the announcement of a $500,000 donation from the company and its supplier partners toward an MRI machine for the Kincardine Hospital.

AUGUST
 

• Federal energy minister Tim Hodgson visited Bruce Power to announce the installation of an Isotope Production System (IPS) in Unit 6, to ensure a stable supply of Made-in-Canada cancer-fighting medical isotopes for the world health-care community.
• The Impact Assessment Agency of Canada (IAAC), in collaboration with the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC), issued the formal Notice of Commencement of Impact Assessment for Bruce Power’s Bruce "C" project.
• The Chippewas of Nawash Unceded First Nation, with the support of Bruce Power and Kinectrics, broke ground on the new Nawash Community Arena in Neyaashiinigmiing — a project that will bring year-round recreation, connection, and opportunity to the heart of the community.

SEPTEMBER
 

• The Unit 4 MCR progressed to its removal and replacement series, following a strong lead-in after the unit was taken off-line in February to begin its three-year refurbishment.
• Bruce Power and its supplier partners donated $100,000 to the Pediatric Oncology Group of Ontario (POGO) to support families impacted by childhood cancer.

OCTOBER
 

• Bruce Power and its partners celebrated the three-year anniversary of becoming the first commercial power reactor to produce cancer-fighting, short-lived medical isotopes through their ground-breaking IPS.
• Bruce Power and its supplier partners donated $145,000 to help in the battle against addiction and suicide in the Saugeen Ojibway Nation territory. 

NOVEMBER
 

• In collaboration with provincial, federal, and municipal partners, Bruce Power conducted Huron Unity, a large-scale emergency preparedness exercise, from Nov. 18-20, successfully testing and validating emergency plans.
• The Saugeen Amphitheatre continues to rise from the rubble with a $500,000 donation from Kinectrics through Bruce Power’s Saugeen Ojibway Nation (SON) Community Development Fund.

DECEMBER
 

• Bruce Power and its supplier partners celebrated Giving Tuesday by donating $335,000 to local holiday initiatives across Bruce, Grey and Huron counties.
• Bruce Power issued an additional $950-million in Green Bonds as it continues to power Ontario forward through operations and projects that drive the economy. Since becoming the first nuclear operator in the world to issue Green Bonds in 2021, Bruce Power now has cumulatively issued $3.3-billion in Green Bonds.
• Bruce Power is helping to make the dream of home-ownership come true with its investment of $1-million to Saugeen First Nation housing over a four-year span.