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Nuclear Plant Still Shut Down, Costs Mount,Mission Viejo Patch, 7 Feb 12 A plant spokesman said Monday that the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station is continuing in shutdown mode.By Adam Townsend, February 6, 2012  The San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station remains in shutdown mode and is producing no electricity. As crews are assessing and planning repairs to leaks at Unit 3 at the plant,

the unplanned shutdown is costing Southern California Edison from $600,000 to $1 million per day.…..It was a week ago when operators detected a steam leak of radioactive water from the heat exchanger tubes inside the steam generator, which makes steam to turn turbines that make the electricity. The heat exchanger tubes number in the thousands and are filled with super-heated, high-pressure, radioactive water. A Nuclear Regulatory Commission spokesman said last week that several hundred tubes in Unit 2 showed wearing on the inside; two were shot, and almost 900 others had significant thinning.

The components are only one to two years old…….   http://missionviejo.patch.com/articles/nuclear-plant-still-shut-down-inspection-ongoing

February 8, 2012 - Posted by | general

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