Palisades Nuclear Plant Outage Extended for Tank Repairs
The Palisades nuclear plant will stay offline until early summer
as crews repair the bottom of a water tank. On May 5, the safety
injection refueling water storage tank began leaking at a rate of about
90 gallons per day, exceeding a threshold set earlier by federal
regulators. The source of the leak has been identified as a small crack
in a nozzle weld at the base of the tank, an Entergy spokeswoman told
the Kalamazoo Gazette. Plans call for replacement of the tank's bottom,
which will keep the plant out of service for weeks. Read More
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