Tuesday, May 22, 2007

Tohoku Electric Shuts Down Nuclear Reactor After Back-up Water Pump Fails

(Bloomberg) -- Tohoku Electric Power Co., Japan's
fourth-largest power producer, shut a nuclear reactor late
yesterday after discovering a mechanical fault at a back-up pump
that supplies water to cool the unit.

The company halted a 524-megawatt reactor at the Onagawa
nuclear power station and started an investigation into the cause
of the failure, the Sendai City-based company said in a statement
on its Web site.


Read more at Bloomberg Energy News

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