Michigan: Nuclear Power Plant Shut Down After Leak
June 13th, 2012
I’ve been following the Michigan/Indiana radiation spike meme for days, but I haven’t seen anything to convince me that anything weird was actually happening there.
And now…
Via: Reuters:
Entergy Corp shut its 793-megawatt Palisades nuclear power plant in Michigan on Tuesday due to leakage from a refueling water tank, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) said in a report.
The company is in the midst of cooling down the reactor in order to make repairs to the refueling water tank, company spokesman Mark Savage told Reuters.
He said that the plant would return to service once repairs were completed, although he did not provide a length of time for the outage.
The tank was believed to be leaking from several locations, the company told the NRC.
The event had no impact on the health and/or safety of the public, the report said.
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