1. The Magnox reactor has been shut since February. 2. Both Zion reactors have been shut for more than a year because regulators say they have found serious management problems. 3. Now there are plans to shut the reactor. 4. Tech officials said the reactor will be shut down this month and its bomb-grade fuel removed. 5. The reactor has been shut since December because of leaks of water containing radioactive tritium from a spent-fuel tank. 6. The reactor was shut down a year ago after water with radioactive tritium was discovered leaking from a fuel storage tank beneath the reactor. 7. The reactor was shut down last June because of radioactive leaks. 8. According to spokesman Milan Nebesar, the reactor was automatically shut down late Tuesday during the tryout of a pump that did not meet the designed test values. 9. An automatic safety system had shut the reactor down Sunday when the transformer that powers it turned itself off unexpectedly after a procedure to rechannel its electric current. 10. But he dismissed prosecution claims that Nuclear Electric hesitated to shut the reactor for commercial reasons. |