[cdn-nucl-l] Wolsong-4 completes first year of commercial operation

["Brown, Morgan" <brownmj@aecl.ca>]

Wolsong-4 completed its first year of commercial operation on Sept 30, 2000,
with a 100.72% annual capacity factor.  That's a gross generation of
6,325,960 MWhe, according to Nucleonics Week, Nov 9, 2000.  It has averaged
100.70% for the first 9 months of 2000.

Here are the CANDU performance stats for the nine months to the end of
September 2000:

Wolsong-1 73.87%
Wolsong-2  90.70%
Wolsong-3  100.86%
Wolsong-4  100.70%

Cernavoda-1 94.07% (to Aug 31, 2000)

KANUPP 45.44%

Embalse 89.30%

Point Lepreau 77.38%

Gentilly-2 84.49%

Pickering-5  65.16%
Pickering-6  63.75%
Pickering-7  55.89%
Pickering-8  60.92%

Bruce-5  91.00%  (the operating CANDU with the highest total gross
production - 102, 027,440 MWhe (gross) to date)
Bruce-6  51.23%
Bruce-7  84.27%
Bruce-8  84.28%

Darlington-1  77.43%
Darlington-2  87.40%
Darlington-3  91.30%
Darlington-4  90.25%

Total Canadian nuclear generation, for Jan 1 to Sept 30 2000, was 55,933,931
MWhe (gross) - an average cap factor of 77.93%.  The total generation Jan 1
to Sep 30 was 55,455,894 MWhe (gross) in 1999 (77.54%) , 54,711,000 in 1998
(76.50%).

cheerio

Morgan Brown