{"id":904240,"date":"2026-09-21T15:40:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T15:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/904240\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T15:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T15:40:10","slug":"pickering-nuclear-reactors-start-coming-off-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/904240\/","title":{"rendered":"Pickering nuclear reactors start coming off-line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">An Ontario nuclear plant is beginning a massive refurbishment project today, as Premier Doug Ford\u2019s government looks to lean heavily on nuclear energy to serve the province\u2019s growing electricity needs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Four reactors at Pickering Nuclear Generating Station are starting to come off-line so they can be refurbished at an estimated cost of $26.8 billion, with the actual refurbishment work set to start in January.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The project is expected to take the units out of service for about a decade and would extend the nuclear plant\u2019s life by up to 38 years, producing enough electricity to power 2.2 million homes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The work includes replacing 1,520 fuel channels, 48 boilers and building a 1.5-kilometre deep-water intake.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Energy Minister Stephen Lecce is touting that the project will support 30,500 jobs, with the vast majority of the costs staying in Ontario.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Environmental Defence has expressed concerns that taking Pickering\u2019s reactors off-line for most of the next decade will increase the province\u2019s already-growing reliance on natural gas to generate electricity, driving up greenhouse gas emissions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 21, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Allison Jones, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>Related Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Ontario nuclear plant is beginning a massive refurbishment project today, as Premier Doug Ford\u2019s government looks to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":904241,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,49,48,11867],"class_list":["post-904240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ontario-quebec"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=904240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/904241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=904240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=904240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=904240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}