FREDERICTON – A spokeswoman for New Brunswick’s Point Lepreau nuclear power plant says problems with refuelling the plant’s reactor should be fixed over the next few weeks.
Spokeswoman Kathleen Duguay says energy production has been reduced to 35 per cent.
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Duguay says power has been reduced a number of times in recent weeks because plugs at each end of the fuel channels are too tight.
She says the utility company is using hydroelectricity from its dams to help offset energy demand.
The reactor has been online since November following an overhaul that began in 2008.
The original 1.4-billion-dollar project to refit the plant cost an extra billion dollars and took three years longer than expected.
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