Dive Summary:
- Unit 2 of Millstone Power Station was shut down on Sunday due to abnormally high temperatures in the seawater being used for cooling at the plant.
- Millstone, which is a subsidiary of Dominion Resources Inc., cannot use water above 75 degrees, and water from Long Island Sound has been averaging 1.7 degrees above that standard recently.
- Dominion did not have a prediction for when the unit will be restarted.
From the article:
Connecticut's nuclear power plant shut down one of two units on Sunday because seawater used to cool down the plant is too warm.
Unit 2 of Millstone Power Station has occasionally shut for maintenance or other issues, but in its 37-year history it has never gone down due to excessively warm water, spokesman Ken Holt said on Monday. ...
