The San Onofre power station was shut down in January this year due to a scare, when the plant released trace amounts of radiation. Now a report is out explaining what actually happened.
The San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station is located 70 miles south of Los Angeles, and has been on temporary shut down since January 2012. At the time, Unit 2 of the San Onofre facility was shut down for routine maintenance and upgrades, when the plant’s crew was forced to halt operations of Unit 3 upon discovering a leak.
After months of meticulous investigation, Federal regulators have now published a report on the incident, and have told AP that design flaws have caused the tubing carrying radioactive water throughout the plant to be worn down extensively.
While it was initially thought that the release of trace amounts of radiation was a fluke, it now seems that this could have been very much worse.... read full article.
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