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Mar 29, 2005 5:47 pm US/Eastern TRENTON, N.J. (AP) Operators of the Hope Creek nuclear power plant are investigating why a weld inside a containment building failed, causing a radioactive steam leak that led to the problem-plagued plant’s latest shutdown.
The slow leak began sometime in February, just weeks after the nuclear reactor went back online Jan. 26. That followed a 3 ½-month shutdown due to a more-serious steam leak elsewhere in the plant, Chic Cannon, spokesman for plant operator PSEG Nuclear, said Tuesday.
The latest problem caused the plant to be shut down Sunday night, but could be diagnosed and fixed, and the plant restarted, within a few weeks, Cannon said. “This was a very slight leak,” he said. “It’s a large industrial facility, so you’re going to have things like this.”
Cannon said no radioactivity was released outside the plant and no workers were harmed in either of the steam leaks, which he said were unrelated....