• The overall PLiM programme is known as the Life Cycle Management Plan for the Bruce Station

• Detailed ageing assessments for high importance, long life items (steam generators, fuel channels, feeders) have been performed. These are usually called life cycle management plans, and they are regularly updated and fed into station asset management and business plans.

• Condition assessments have been prepared for many systems, structures, and components. These are used to update the station life cycle management plan.

• Condition assessments are being used to update the system performance monitoring plans.

• For replaceable and short life components, a preventive maintenance review was performed and is implemented by the station, with effort on continual improvement in the maintenance process and equipment reliability.

• Bruce U3 and U4 were restarted in 2003/4; U1 and U2 are shutdown and undergoing a major refurbishment.

New Brunswick Power (Point Lepreau)

• Performed life assessments on the most important critical components and structures

• Carried out plant-wide condition assessment, involving major systems, components, structures and commodity groups

• The SSC ageing assessments have provided important inputs into business decisions for the investment in life extension

• Carried out systematic assessment of maintenance studies covering 30 key systems. Currently conducting functional failure & criticality analysis of system components in support of system health plans. Recommendations from earlier PLiM studies were dispositioned as part of the condition assessment & system health plans.

• Started a major plant refurbishment programme, as part of the plan for extended service operation. This involves an 18-month outage to allow an additional 25-30 years operation. This outage is planned to start April 2008, with the principle activity being replacement of all Fuel Channels, Calandria Tubes and portions of the feeders. It is also planned to take advantage of this outage to perform other modifications in support of safe and reliable operation.

• Ongoing programme on maintenance tasks evaluation and to improve life cycle management plans on feeders, steam generators and fuel channels.