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February 8, 2012

Feds find 'unusual' wear at California nuke plant

  • More than a third of the walls in two tubes had worn away, requiring their removal. Thinning has been found in 800 other tubes that feed hot radioactive water to steam generators.
    • By MICHAEL R. BLOOD
    Associated Press

    LOS ANGELES — The integrity of some equipment installed in 2009 at Southern California's San Onofre Unit 2 nuclear plant is drawing concern after unusual wear was found on hundreds of tubes that carry radioactive water.

    Thursday's disclosure came two days after a tube leak at the plant's other unit prompted operators to shut down the reactor as a precaution. A tiny amount of radiation could have escaped, but officials say workers and the public were not endangered.


     
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