Point Lepreau nuclear power plant

Point Lepreau nuclear power plant in context

By gross operating capacity Point Lepreau nuclear power plant is the 4th largest of 4 operating nuclear sites in Canada, holding 5% of the country's operating capacity, and ranks 163rd of 172 worldwide.

Its operating unit started up in 1983; the unit is 43.0 years old, older than the median of 41.0 in Canada.

The one unit with both construction and grid dates on record took 7.4 years from construction start to grid connection; the median across all reactors connected in the 1980s is 7.3 years.

No other nuclear site with an exact position in this dataset lies within 300 km.

The tracker lists a planned retirement year, a forecast and not a decision on record, for 1 operating unit: Unit 1 (2040).

Build time by unit

How these are worked out: ranks use gross operating capacity; ages count from the start-up year on record, as on the age page; build times run from construction start to grid connection, as on the build-times page; ratings are the tracker's net and design net capacity, as on the uprates page. Distances are straight-line between exact positions, so a site with only an approximate position gets none. A unit missing a date or a rating is left out of the figure that needs it.