News report of coolant leak at Indian Point

["Strickert, Rick" <rstrickert@signaturescience.com>]

Excerpted from the Washington Post web site

( http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9640-2002Feb14.html)



	Nuclear Power Plant Leaking Coolant 

	The Associated Press

	Thursday, February 14, 2002; 12:23 PM 



	BUCHANAN, N.Y. -- Radioactive coolant is leaking from a steam

generator of 

	the Indian Point nuclear plants, but not enough to endanger

anyone or slow 

	down the plant, officials said.



	Plant owner Entergy Corp. reported that sensors detected

radioactivity - about 

	a tenth of an ounce a day - in what is supposed to be the clean

water that is 

	converted to steam.



	"It's very small. It's being monitored. There's no danger,"

Entergy spokesman 

	Larry Gottlieb said Thursday.



	Company vice president Fred Dacino noted the allowable limit of

radioactivity 

	is 1,000 times as much.

------



That "tenth of an ounce a day" must be some new SI unit of

radioactivity. ;-)



Rick



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