A few reactors ended their operating life at the end of 2012. In Spain the 41 year old
Garoña reactor was shut down permanently in December 2012 based in part on a new €153 million energy tax as well as refurbishment costs. Hydro Quebec recommended to the Quebec government
closure of Gentilly 2, a 675 Mw CANDU 6 plant that began operation in 1983. Operation ceased December 28, 2012, and the plant now goes into a long-term storage pending final dismantling and decommissioning, expected in 2062.
Gentilly 1, a smaller 250-MW CANDU
-BWR
prototype that shut down in 1977. The Gentilly
site hosted the only operating reactors in Quebec; plans for a third unit were scrapped.
This card was posted in Trois Rivieres, Quebec, the ancestral home of the Burns (Brulé) family before they emigrated to the U.S. in the 19th century.
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