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Bruce Power has signed a supplier agreement with a new, locally-based, First Nation-owned joint business venture (JV) to provide construction services to Bruce Power, as part of the company’s ongoing investment program.

The second unit at the refurbished Bruce A nuclear power plant has sent electricity to the Canadian grid for the first time in 17 years, five months after its restart was postponed because of generator problems.The grid synchronisation of Bruce A2 signals the final stages of commissioning the 750MWe Candu after seven years of refurbishment.

Bruce A1 reactor sends electricity to the grid for the first time in 15 years following a major refurbishment. Bruce A1 has been off line since 1997, when its then owner Ontario Hydro decided to lay up all four Bruce A units to focus on other reactors in its fleet.