Establishing a comprehensive management of significant environmental aspects and their impact on the environment Maintaining a good legal registry and complying with them Setting environmental goals, objectives and targets and integrating them with our operations Creating awareness among all employeesREAD MORE
An Environmental Management System (EMS) is a structure of connected elements that define how an organization manages its environmental impacts. These elements include policies, organizational structure, procedures, objectives and targets, and defined processes.
An International Organization of Standardization, (ISO) 14001 registration certifies that a company has set up an Environmental Management System and demonstrates commitment to providing the resources, time and expertise to monitor and manage our environmental activities on site, such thatREAD MORE
Comply with all laws and regulatory requirements Continually improve environmental performance Prevent pollution and reduce waste
The CANDU system employs a unique, on-power refueling system for optimum performance. Two identical fueling machines rise from a fueling duct under the reactor and latch onto opposite ends of a designated fuel channel. Each machine is operated remotely fromREAD MORE
The calandria is the cylindrical reactor vessel that contains the heavy water moderator. It is penetrated from end-to-end by hundreds of calandria tubes, which accommodate the pressure tubes containing the fuel and coolant.
Uranium fuel is formed into ceramic pellets then sealed in metal tubes. A fuel bundle is an assembly of 37 fuel elements – which are thin, pencil-like tubes about two feet long – containing 29 uranium dioxide pellets in aREAD MORE
A pellet of uranium fuel weighing about seven grams – the weight of two nickels – contains as much energy as three barrels of oil. A single 25 kg CANDU fuel bundle, about the size of a fire log, canREAD MORE
Bruce Power has four reactors in each Bruce A and Bruce B. Since 2003, all four Bruce A units have been refurbished and returned to service, adding an additional 3,000 megawatts (MW) of low-cost, clean and reliable power to theREAD MORE
Electricity generation from nuclear power creates virtually no CO2 or other greenhouse gases, and does not contribute to smog. . By contrast, 400 tonnes of coal would produce about 100 tonnes of ash, 1,000 tonnes of CO2 gas, and fiveREAD MORE