Bruce Power’s Unit 5 Sets Reliability Record Ahead of Planned Outage

Bruce Power celebrated an anniversary of continues operation for their Unit 5 with a record run of 591 days of providing clean, reliable energy before it was removed from service for a planned outage for maintenance.

The unit surpassed it’s previously record of 556 consecutive days online  on January 1st.

The Unit 5 planned outage will include a harvesting of Cobalt-60, a life saving medical isotope used to fight cancer and in sterilization of medical devices.

The amount harvested will produce enough Cobalt-60 to sterilize about 24 billion globes, masks, gowns and swabs.