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New York nuclear reactor shut down due to water leak

NY’s Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant Shut For Repairs – WSJ.comBy Mark Long and Mark Peters Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES NEW YORK (Dow Jones)- 10 Sept 10, -Entergy Corp. (ETR) said Friday its Indian Point nuclear-power station in New York was completely offline after the second of two operating units was shut because of a non-radioactive water leak…Unit 3 was shut Thursday evening after the discovery of a leak of water used to cool the generator, which is housed in a building separate from the reactor….The shutdown of Unit 3, which had been running continuously for more than a year, comes just a week after Unit 2 was brought offline for the repair of a water-pump motor.

UPDATE: NY’s Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant Shut For Repairs – WSJ.com

September 10, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | general | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs, reactor