Bruce Power will expand its visitor programs, after seeing almost 16,000 people at the visitors centre last year.
The figure includes tour participants, pre-arranged programs, guests at special events and more than 4,000 drop-in visitors.
A new Welcome Wall was installed near the front entrance of the Bruce Power Visitors Centre in 2016 to provide a first impression of Bruce Power, and its connection with the surrounding communities, environment and Indigenous peoples.
There are plans to keep the centre open seven days a week this summer, create a new Cobalt 60 display, and upgrade the centre's 100 seat theatre.
"We started the bus tour program on a trial basis a couple of years ago with tremendous success and expanded it to six days a week last summer," says Scongack. "We’re also focused on continual improvement in the exhibit hall. In the last five years we’ve replaced or upgraded every exhibit in the facility."
The visitors centre is open to the public year-round Monday to Friday, with expanded hours in the summer months; and closed statutory holidays.
"Bruce Power provides much of the world’s Cobalt-60 which is used to sterilize disposable medical supplies and also for gamma-knife surgery in the treatment of brain cancer," Scongack says. "This is an amazing story we want to tell in an intriguing manner at our visitors centre."
