Ontario Limits Nukes in New Plan

摘要

Ontario will defer indefinitely construction of two new nuclear-power reactors at the Darlington and Bruce Power facilities, scale back plans to refurbish operating units at those sites and may order the shutdown of another six-unit plant before its scheduled 2020 closing date, according to a long-term energy plan the provincial government released earlier this month. The province said that advances in energy conservation, enhanced efficiency and a slowdown in electricity-demand growth prompted it to revise a 2010 energy plan that called for building the two new reactors at the Darlington powerplant site as well as refurbishing 10 units there and at a site owned by utility Bruce Power. Ontario Power Generation owns the Darlington site.