Point Lepreau Nuclear Generating Station
Point Lepreau Nuclear Generating Station is a nuclear power station located 2 km northeast of Point Lepreau, New Brunswick, Canada. The facility was constructed between 1975 and 1983 by NB Power, the provincially owned public utility.
Transmission lines leading to the Point Lepreau Nuclear Generating Station in background at left.
New Brunswick Electric Power Corporation, operating as NB Power, is the primary electric utility in the Canadian province of New Brunswick. NB Power is a vertically-integrated Crown corporation by the government of New Brunswick and is responsible for the generation, transmission, and distribution of electricity. NB Power serves all the residential and industrial power consumers in New Brunswick, with the exception of those in Saint John, Edmundston and Perth-Andover who are served by Saint John Energy, Energy Edmundston, and the Perth-Andover Electric Light Commission, respectively.
The floodgates of the Grand Falls generating station, during the annual freshet of the Saint John River.
A NB Power lineman working on a transmission tower in Saint John.
The Mactaquac dam and generating station on the Saint John River, upstream from Fredericton.
Transmission lines near the Point Lepreau Nuclear Generating Station, in southwestern New Brunswick.
