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Designed with customer input; emphasis on operation and maintenance and experience / CANDU plant feedback
> 90 per cent lifetime capacity factor; 95 per cent year-to-year
Three year planned outage frequency
21-day planned outage duration
1.5 per cent per year forced outage
Rod-based GSS (Guaranteed Shutdown State)
Quadrant separation allows flexibility for on-line maintenance and outage management
High degree of SST (Safety System Testing) automation
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