Nuclear shutdown
NZPA-AP Miami Radioactive water dripping from a valve forced the shutdown of a nuclear reactor at the Turkey Point power station in Florida, but the incident was described as minor by a Nuclear Regulatory Commission official. “We are talking about a flea in a hurricane. It is extremely minor,” said the commission’s spokesman, Ken Clark. The radioactive cooling water seeped through the doughnut-shaped seal around an instrument that monitored the reactor core. It was estimated it would take a week to repair the seal and another two days to bring the plant back on line from the cold shutdown.
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Press, 17 March 1987, Page 26
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