CNSC renews Bruce Power's operating licence for five years

The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) has granted a five-year operating licence renewal for Bruce Power to continue running the world's largest nuclear power plant, at the Bruce Nuclear site in the Municipality of Kincardine.

The renewal comes after extensive public consultation and a thorough review of the company's safety performance at the eight reactors that make up Bruce A and Bruce B generating stations.

 

“We are pleased with this result and, quite frankly, we were humbled by the support offered by the many organizations and individuals who made presentations at the public hearings,” says Duncan Hawthorne, Bruce Power’s president and chief executive officer. “We believe we require two licences – our operating licence from the regulator and our social licence, which is granted by our community, and we have to earn both of those each and every day.”

 

The CNSC held a public meeting Feb. 5 in Ottawa, as well as sessions from April 14-17 in Kincardine as part of Bruce Power’s reactor operating licence renewal application for the Bruce Nuclear site.

 

The CNSC regulates the use of nuclear energy and materials to protect the health, safety and security of Canadians and the environment; to implement Canada’s international commitments on the peaceful use of nuclear energy; and to disseminate objective scientific, technical and regulatory information to the public.

 

Agendas, hearing transcripts and information on the hearing process, are available at the CNSC website at www.nuclearsafety.gc.ca. More information, including a relicensing briefing document, is available at www.brucepower.com/licence-renewal-2015.