FirstEnergy Says It’s Fixing a Leak at Ohio Nuclear Plant
By Julie Johnsson and Katarzyna Klimasinska on June 07, 2012
FirstEnergy Corp. (FE) (FE) is repairing a leak discovered June 6 as it restarted Davis-Besse nuclear station in Ohio following a refueling outage, a company spokeswoman said.
FirstEnergy can’t say for competitive reasons when it expects to complete the repair to the reactor’s coolant system or when the 913-megawatt unit will come online, Jennifer Young, a spokeswoman for the Akron, Ohio-based company said in a telephone phone interview today.
The amount of radioactive water that sprayed through the pinhole-sized leak was “relatively small” and no radiation was discharged from the plant, Young said.
The leak was below the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission threshold for mandatory reporting, Viktoria Mitlyng, a spokeswoman for the agency in Lisle, Illinois, said today in a telephone interview.
